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Annales ecclesiastici poeticis numberis illigati. A christo nato ad nos usque traducti. Tomus primus

Annales ecclesiastici poeticis numberis illigati. A christo nato ad nos usque traducti. Tomus primus by [BINDING]. JOSSET, Pietro

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Title
Annales ecclesiastici poeticis numberis illigati. A christo nato ad nos usque traducti. Tomus primus
Author
[BINDING]. JOSSET, Pietro
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
Poitiers: J. Thoreau & A. Mesnier, 1638. FIRST EDITION. Complete with approbation, Privilege du Roi, and index with errata on verso. Title printed in red and black. Contemporary original binding of richly gilt morocco, rebacked with the original spine laid down, spine gilt in compartments with raised bands. Presumably decorated with the arms of the family of the Des Cervon, Baron des Arsis, mentioned in the contemporary handwritten inscription in the first blank leaf that reveals that the book was given as an award to a worthy student of the Jesuit boarding school at La Fleche, thanks to the generosity of the Baron. Contemporary ownership notation on title from the novitiate in Paris (Domus Probationis Parisiensis). Despite some dampstaining and browning, an excellent copy from the library of Holland House with their armorial bookplate on the front paste down. First edition of this Latin translation in verse of Annales ecclesiastistici by Cesare Baronio, a history of the first twelve centuries of the Catholic Church. First published between 1588 and 1607 as an official response to the Lutheran Historia ecclesiae Christi (History of the Church of Christ), Baronio’s Annales treats history in chronological order and keeps theology in the background. It was in this work that the term “Dark Ages” in the Latin form saeculum obscurum was coined. The work is dedicated to François de Villemontée (1598-1670), knight and lord of Montaiguillon and of Villenaux and bishop of Saint-Malo. Josset (1598-1663) entered the Jesuit order in 1607. He taught Holy Scriptures and oratory in various colleges, including Limoges, which at the time was very important and when many professors there had their works published. Josset also published a famous book on rhetoric in1650. Baronio (1538-1607) was an Italian Cardinal and historian of the Roman Catholic Church. As librarian of the Vatican Apostolic Library from 1597 he had access to sources and material never before used. Therefore his Annales represent one of the first works on Catholic ecclesiastic history based on critical examination of sources. Indeed, he is aknowledged by Roman Catholic writers as the “father of ecclesiastical history.”.
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The Christian in Palestine or scenes of sacred history, historical and descriptive by STEBBING, Henry

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Title
The Christian in Palestine or scenes of sacred history, historical and descriptive
Author
STEBBING, Henry
Seller
Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: George Virtue, 1847. FIRST EDITION. Complete added engraved title, map, and 78 engraved plates, most of them by William Henry Bartlett. Half-morocco and pebbled cloth, spine gilt in compartments, corners and spine rubbed with some losses, all edges colored red; interior joints partially detached, text toned, occasional browning and foxing. First edition of an exquisitely illustrated and extremely important travel book detailing the history, culture, and religions of Israel and Palestine. Travel to the Holy Land was becoming increasingly popular in the nineteenth century, and this particular work provided an extensive visual representation that gained great attention in America, Great Britain and the Continent. Stebbing strives to describe the topographical scenes as accurately as possible, peppering in historical details when appropriate. Stebbing ( 1799-1883) was a preacher, historian, poet, and editor who is most well known for his works on the church and his work with booksellers in London. As chaplain to the King, he published a number of attacks on leading religious figures. Bartlett (1809-1854), a noted British artist and steel engraver, began his career by sketching the landscape and topography of Great Britain for the architect John Britton. His later traveled to Europe, Turkey, the Middle East, and eventually North America, producing thousands of drawings that were used to illustrate his own works as well as books such as this one.
THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS; PARTICULARLY THOSE NATIONS ADJOINING TO THE MISSISSIPPI, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA, GEORGIA, SOUTH AND NORTH CAROLINA, AND VIRGINIA: Containing an Account of their Origin, Language, Manners, Religious and Civil Customs, Laws, Form of Government, Punishments, Conduct in War and Domestic Life, Their Habits, Diet, Agriculture, Manufactures, Diseases and Method of Cure, and Other Particulars, Sufficient to Render It a Complete Indian System. With Observations on Former Historians, the Conduct of Our Colony Governors, Superintendents, Missionaries, Etc

THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS; PARTICULARLY THOSE NATIONS ADJOINING TO THE MISSISSIPPI, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA, GEORGIA, SOUTH AND NORTH CAROLINA, AND VIRGINIA: Containing an Account of their Origin, Language, Manners, Religious and Civil Customs, Laws, Form of Government, Punishments, Conduct in War and Domestic Life, Their Habits, Diet, Agriculture, Manufactures, Diseases and Method of Cure, and Other Particulars, Sufficient to Render It a Complete Indian System. With Observations on Former Historians, the Conduct of Our Colony Governors, Superintendents, Missionaries, Etc by ADAIR, James

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THE HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS; PARTICULARLY THOSE NATIONS ADJOINING TO THE MISSISSIPPI, EAST AND WEST FLORIDA, GEORGIA, SOUTH AND NORTH CAROLINA, AND VIRGINIA: Containing an Account of their Origin, Language, Manners, Religious and Civil Customs, Laws, Form of Government, Punishments, Conduct in War and Domestic Life, Their Habits, Diet, Agriculture, Manufactures, Diseases and Method of Cure, and Other Particulars, Sufficient to Render It a Complete Indian System. With Observations on Former Historians, the Conduct of Our Colony Governors, Superintendents, Missionaries, Etc
Author
ADAIR, James
Seller
Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Contents clean with minor toning; some rubbing to joints. Near Fine
Description
London: Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775. First Edition. Hardcover. Contents clean with minor toning; some rubbing to joints. Near Fine. Quarto (8-1/2" x 11-1/4") bound in contemporary calf rebacked with the original spine with a new gilt-lettered burgundy morocco spine label, the original label loosely laid in; [xii], 464, [2, ads] pages. Complete with half title and the engraved folding map. GRAFF 10; HOWES A-38 ("Best 18th century English source on the Southern tribes, written by one who traded forty years with them"); SABIN 155 James Adair was a frontiersman and fur trader who lived among the Catawba, Chickasaw, and Cherokee for forty years, gathering first-hand information about the customs of these Indian tribes. He was one of the first white settlers to explore the Alleghenies. Bookplates of Lucy Foster and Francis Bayard Rives on front pastedown and endpaper, respectively.
[In Greek]: Anakreontos Teiou Mele. Anacreontis Teii Odaria

[In Greek]: Anakreontos Teiou Mele. Anacreontis Teii Odaria by Anacreon; Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi, ed.

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Title
[In Greek]: Anakreontos Teiou Mele. Anacreontis Teii Odaria
Author
Anacreon; Giovanni Cristoforo Amaduzzi, ed.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
Parma: Ex Regio Typographeio [i.e., Giambattista Bodoni], 1785. Very Good+. Quarto (32 cm); [4]. xciv, 100, [2] pages. Engraved title vignette, engraved vignette of the arms of Don José Nicolás de Azara (by Domenico Cagnoni). Text in Latin and Greek. Printed in capitals on blue paper. In contemporary dark green-brown speckled calfskin, ruled in gilt and bordered with a frond and flower tool, all edges gilt. Spine in six compartments titled in gilt and gilt stamped with "Greek pavilion" tool. Greek key turn-ins. Pink marbled endleaves. The whole preserved in recent custom slipcase. Spine fading to brown and beginning to split slightly near head and tail. Few abrasions on boards. Text effectively unblemished. References: Brooks, 287 ("Magnificamente stampato in caratteri maiuscoli"); Giani, Catalogo delle autentiche edizioni bodoniane, 3 ("Certo questa seconda edizione è più attraente della prima...."); De Lama, II, 35 ("bella edizione"). Much admired edition in a large quarto format of a text Bodoni had printed in octavo the previous year. Intended in part to show off his new Greek capital letters, he printed the entire text on tinted paper in caps and small caps, in sharp distinction to any prior edition. Bodoni was actively trying to expand his commercial market and his reputation into Spain during this period, hence the dedication to Azara, a Spanish noble and sometime resident of Parma.
Gnomonica, oder Gründlicher Unterricht und Beschreibung. Wie Man Allerhand Sonnen-Uhren Künstlich Aufreissen und Leichlich Verferitgen Soll &c. ..

Gnomonica, oder Gründlicher Unterricht und Beschreibung. Wie Man Allerhand Sonnen-Uhren Künstlich Aufreissen und Leichlich Verferitgen Soll &c. .. by Welper, Eberhard. Johann Christoph Sturm

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Title
Gnomonica, oder Gründlicher Unterricht und Beschreibung. Wie Man Allerhand Sonnen-Uhren Künstlich Aufreissen und Leichlich Verferitgen Soll &c. ..
Author
Welper, Eberhard. Johann Christoph Sturm
Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Nürnberg: Paulus Fürstens, Seel. Wittib und Erben. Printed by Christoph Gerhard, 1672. Full Vellum. Very Good. Two parts in one volume. Treatise on sun-dials. 4to. 18 by 13.5 cm. [xii], 88, [17] pp. Engraved frontis and 17 other engraved plates, including one duplicate. Condition: vellum soiled. Scattered light foxing, never disconcerting. Lacking final blank.
Small round box decorated with straw marquetry and embroidery

Small round box decorated with straw marquetry and embroidery by STRAW MARQUETRY COSMETICS BOX

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Small round box decorated with straw marquetry and embroidery
Author
STRAW MARQUETRY COSMETICS BOX
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Musinsky Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
[France, 18th century]. A two-part round wooden box, approx. 68 mm in diameter x 30 mm. high, the top slightly rounded, top and sides covered in decorative designs composed of bands of straw marquetry overlaid with twisted and embroidered straw-work, the design on upper cover with sections in relief, the bottom of the box undecorated, the interior lined in strips of multi-colored straw. Condition: loss of one hook of the looped ribbon on sides, slight ungluing of straw decoration on bottom part; the straw lining with some swelling and irregularities, but overall in excellent condition. *** A lovely decorative box, possibly a “boîte à poudre” for face powder. The cover is decorated with a flowering plant, its flowers made of tiny flat bands of straw with leaves of interwoven straw, petals and leaves outlined in embroidered straw, and the rest of the surface decorated with embroidered tendrils. The sides of both sections are decorated with a continuous looped garland. “Starting in the 17th century and throughout the 18th century, elegant women carried around their necks or in their pockets a proliferation of bibelots, boxes, tubes and other miniaturized nécéssaires, most intended for perfumes or makeup, They also appeared in their bedrooms.`Their rooms are cluttered with thousands of boxes,’” complained one contemporary in 1642. (Caunes & Baumgartner, p. 148, transl). Sold by marchands-merciers, these accessories came in all sorts of materials, from the most expensive materials like porcelain or ivory, to the humblest, like straw. In spite of the inexpensive and accessible material, straw creations during this period, which often combined the techniques of straw-plaiting, straw marquetry, and a method of using straw in embroidery, could be exquisite. The box was probably made by nuns. Straw marquetry and straw embroidery were associated early on in France with nuns’ handiwork, in the production of both religious and secular objects, often produced for sale outside the convent. Straw was cheap and abundant, and working it demanded skill rather than any expensive materials or sophisticated preparation. To make a palette resembling wood veneer, wheat or oat straw was split, soaked for a time in water, and then ironed. From this basic technique, two main decorative techniques evolved, one using straw marquetry and the other relief embroidery. This little box uses both. An example of a larger box using the same techniques is reproduced by Caunes, et al., p. 62. A similar box, measuring approx 11 x 6 cm, is currently being offered by a New York antiques dealer (for $14,000). While externally the colors of the box are somewhat muted, the original bright colors of the dyed straw strips have been preserved in its inner lining. Cf. Lison de Caunes, Serge Goldsal, & Catherine Baumgartner, La Marqueterie de Paille (Paris: les Editions de l'Amateur, 1993), passim.
Darwinism/Island Life

Darwinism/Island Life by Alfred Russel Wallace

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Darwinism/Island Life
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very Good+
Description
First US Edition w/John Wilson and Son to the verso of the title page and 2 pages of Macmillan ads to the back of the book. A Very Good to Near Fine copy, with a mild lean to the binding (else tight), light rubbing to the edges, some scattered age-spotting through the text, and a previous owner's stamp to the front free paper. Also included, a Second and Revised edition of Wallace's "Island Life", in similar condition to "Darwinism"; this copy from the personal library of J. Kenneth Doutt, author, scientist,and museum curator. A handsome pair of volumes from the preeminent scientist, generally given credit for developing the theory of natural selection at about the same time as Darwin published his Origin of Species; subsequently Wallace became one of Darwin's leading advocates and expounded on the theory in his own work (including these 2 works). Not remaindered, not ex-library; will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays

The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays by Tolkien, J.R.R.

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Title
The Monsters and the Critics and Other Essays
Author
Tolkien, J.R.R.
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780395356357
Condition
Very good
Description
Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First American Edition. 240pp. Very good hardback in a jacket that shows just the lightest rubbing and most minute wear to the extremities. Posthumous book of essays edited by Christopher Tolkien.
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Vaclav Havel - zaruka svobodnych voleb (Vaclav Havel - Guarantee of Free Elections) by Anonymous

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Vaclav Havel - zaruka svobodnych voleb (Vaclav Havel - Guarantee of Free Elections)
Author
Anonymous
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
S. l. (Prague [?]: s. n., 1989. First Edition. Very good. Poster, n. d. (1989); 12 x 18 1/2; offset lithograph - blue text and photographic image on thin white stock; a bit of creasing to upper left corner and edge; very good condition. An anonymous political poster, one of at least three known versions, published in November - December of 1989 during the Velvet Revolution, promoting Vaclav Havel (1936 - 2011) for President. He would, indeed, serve as the last President of former Czechoslovakia from 1989 until its dissolution in 1992 and then as the first President of the Czech Republic from 1993 until 2003. The accompanying text outlined various milestones of his work towards civic freedom.
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A Small Collection of Material of Berkley Artist and Publisher Paul Veres by Veres, Paul; et al

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A Small Collection of Material of Berkley Artist and Publisher Paul Veres
Author
Veres, Paul; et al
Seller
ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
Berkeley, CA: Calligraphics. Near fine. Paul Veres (1944 - 2024) was born in a Hungarian Jewish famiy during the worst year of WWII in Hungary. After immigrating with his family to New York in 1949 he would eventually move to Berkeley in 1973. A dedicated studio art educator, he would also design various digital typefaces, with fonts inspired by years of hand-drawn calligraphy work. Veres published, as well, under his own imprint - Calligraphics. The first item was a manuscript scrapbook, titled "My Scrap Book" and possibly created as a school project in the 1950s. Richly illustrated and captioned, it pictured explorers, holidays, etc. and ended with a cheerful anthropomorphic American Flag nad the words: "So Long Folks!" (12 1/4 x 9 1/4; pp. [74]; textured green wraps, tied with a string; illustrations and text in ink, pencils, and crayons; light wear - in very good to near fine condition.) The second was a beautiful, fine-press facsimile, published under the Calligraphics imprint and recreated one of the series of 8 chapbooks by artist and author Joseph Crawhall II (1821 - 1896). ("John & Joan; or, a Mad Couple Well Met [Crawhall's Chap-book Chaplets]." 12 x 9 1/4; pp. [1], 4-15, [5], heavy, loose leaves, folded and tipped into each other; blue, pictorial wraps; lithographed illustrations; very minor creasing to corners; in near fine condition). The third was also a facsimile - this one of Benjamin Sands' "Metamorphosis, or, A Transformation of Pictures, with Poetical Explanations, for the Amusement of Young Persons." First published in 1787, the turn-up book would become immensely popular, with over 30 editions being released before the 1820s. (Single sheet of paper, folded to four 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 panels, each panel with upper and lower flaps; illustrated; very minor wear - in near fine condition).
Art Deco Bookends: Scottie dog with front paws Lifted

Art Deco Bookends: Scottie dog with front paws Lifted

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Title
Art Deco Bookends: Scottie dog with front paws Lifted
Seller
B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
[c. 1920] Pair of bookends featuring a Scottie dog with front paws elevated, gold-toned metal. Fine. Overall, a hefty vintage pair of bookends for dog lovers. Scottie dogs were popular subjects for bookends in the 1930s and '40s due to their prominence in popular culture, recognizable silhouette, and compact, "boxy" shape, which made them ideal for metal casting. Named after the International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts that took place in Paris in 1925, Art Deco was a design movement that flourished in the 1920s and 1930s, characterized by sleekness and geometric lines, and influenced by industrialism, Cubism, Bauhaus, and archaeological discoveries, including King Tut's tomb in 1922. During the height of the movement, Art Deco bookends were popular objects to collect, due to their beauty, affordability, and practicality. Notably, New York City is home to a few of the world's most famous examples of Art Deco architecture: the Chrysler Building, the Empire State Building, and Rockefeller Center. This collection of Art Deco bookends features a wide and wonderful variety of designs and metal types. The sculpted works span historical figures like Roycroft arts-and-crafts community founder Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915), modern dance pioneer and inventor of the "Serpentine Dance" Loie Fuller (1862-1928), and the legendary literary pair Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) and his muse Beatrice Portinari (ca. 1265-1290). Other designs include lions, serpents, whales, seamen, puppies, and cherubs, among many others. The bookends were made by some of the most prominent American art metal companies of the first half of the 20th century, including PM Craftsman (est. 1911), Armor Bronze (est. 1910 as "National Metalizing Company"), Frankart (est. 1924), and Pompeian Bronze Company (est. 1889 as the "Galvano Bronze Company").. Gold-Toned Metal. Fine. 4.5" x 2" x 6.5".
A STATION ON THE PATH TO SOMEWHERE BETTER [INSCRIBED]

A STATION ON THE PATH TO SOMEWHERE BETTER [INSCRIBED] by Wood, Benjamin

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Title
A STATION ON THE PATH TO SOMEWHERE BETTER [INSCRIBED]
Author
Wood, Benjamin
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9781471126741
Description
New York: Scribner, 2018. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 358 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering. Spine light gray with white and black lettering. Exterior has very slight wear including faint sunning. Boards have light wear. Text block has very slight wear including mild age toning to the edges. Pictorial end papers. First edition, first printing. Inscribed by the author. NOTE: Shelved in Locked Annex, Column AA. 1409726. FP New Rockville Stock.
THAT NOBLE DREAM: THE "OBJECTIVITY QUESTION" AND THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PROFESSION

THAT NOBLE DREAM: THE "OBJECTIVITY QUESTION" AND THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PROFESSION by Novick, Peter

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THAT NOBLE DREAM: THE "OBJECTIVITY QUESTION" AND THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL PROFESSION
Author
Novick, Peter
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Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780521343282
Description
Cambridge, UK / New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. First Edition, Twenty-Second Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, xii, 648 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine black, white, and bronze with black lettering. Light rubbing to boards. Mild bumping to tail of spine. Mild stain to top edge of text block. Shelved General U.S. History. 1412543. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
ALL THE COLLECTED SHORT POEMS, 1956-1964

ALL THE COLLECTED SHORT POEMS, 1956-1964 by Zukofsky, Louis

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Title
ALL THE COLLECTED SHORT POEMS, 1956-1964
Author
Zukofsky, Louis
Seller
Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1966. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Octavo, 96 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good minus dust jacket. Spine tan and blue with blue and tan lettering. Dust jacket protected with a mylar covering, price uncut: "$4.50." Rubbing and mild tearing along edges of dust jacket. Light scuffing and soiling to dust jacket. Mild shelf wear to boards. Textblock clean. Shelved in Poetry. 1404031. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
[AMERICANA] [CALIFORNIA] [EPHEMERA] SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION BULLETIN. VOL. I, No. 5

[AMERICANA] [CALIFORNIA] [EPHEMERA] SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION BULLETIN. VOL. I, No. 5

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[AMERICANA] [CALIFORNIA] [EPHEMERA] SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION BULLETIN. VOL. I, No. 5
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Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition
near Very Good binding
Description
[San Diego Exposition News Pub. Co.], 1915. Soft Cover. near Very Good binding. Stapled magazine; in printed wrappers; [1], 26 pages; “An Independent Journal Containing Reliable Information About the Panama-California Exposition and Devoted to the Interests of the Stockholder, Homeseeker and Tourist”.~~With advertisements, and a photographic illustration on the cover: “Fifth Street, One of San Diego’s Business Sections”.~~With a rather “Babbitt-like” slogan: “If we print it it’s a boost”.~~This periodical “boosting” the Exposition is most uncommon; at this time we are able to locate but two institutional holdings, both in California. near Very Good binding.
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Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume XII

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Collections of the Minnesota Historical Society, Volume XII
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James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition
Very good condition
Description
St. Paul: Minnesota Historical Society, 1908. Hardcover. Very good condition. Bound in original cloth with rules stamped in blind on the covers and the spine stamped in gilt. Gilt on spine is faded. Previous owner's name in ink on the front pastedown endpaper. Minor chips to the head and heel of the spine and to some corners.
Three Hundred and Sixty Buddhist Dieties. Asian Iconogrqphy Series-II

Three Hundred and Sixty Buddhist Dieties. Asian Iconogrqphy Series-II by Tachikawa, Musashi, Masahide Mori and Shimobu Yamaguchi, compilers

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Title
Three Hundred and Sixty Buddhist Dieties. Asian Iconogrqphy Series-II
Author
Tachikawa, Musashi, Masahide Mori and Shimobu Yamaguchi, compilers
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9788187392200
Condition
Fine
Description
Delhi: Adroit, 2001. Hardcover. Fine/near fine.
Savannah Morning News, (January 14, 1874

Savannah Morning News, (January 14, 1874

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Title
Savannah Morning News, (January 14, 1874
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McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Savannah: J. H. Estill, Proprietor, 1874. Good. 4-page newspaper. 68 x 48 cm. Additional vertical and horizontal folds for storage. Moderate general wear including splitting, fraying and wear along folds. Some foxing. Lots of advertising and anti-Reconstruction sentiment. Joel Chandler Harris was Associate Editor in 1874. We didn't see his byline on anything so we don't know what, if anything, he might have written in this issue.
Notes on Cuba

Notes on Cuba by Wurdemann, John G. F., 1810-1849

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Title
Notes on Cuba
Author
Wurdemann, John G. F., 1810-1849
Seller
McBlain Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1844. 1st ed. Hardcover. Good. x, 359p. Original black cloth. 21 cm. Backstrip heavily chipped along joints and mostly detached along front cover. Some ond corner creases. Text leaves age-toned and browned around edges. Significant foxing throughout. The 1971 Arno reprint of this book adds a two-page "About the Author" note by Robert M. Goldwyn in which Wurdemann is identified as a South Carolina physician who went to Cuba in hopes of recovering from tuberculosis.
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Magnificent collection of botanical books. De Belder library. Sotheby catalogue by Belder, Robert de

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Title
Magnificent collection of botanical books. De Belder library. Sotheby catalogue
Author
Belder, Robert de
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
London: Sotheby's, 1987.
Big Honey Hunt

Big Honey Hunt by BERENSTAIN, Stan and Jan

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Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB
Title
Big Honey Hunt
Author
BERENSTAIN, Stan and Jan
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description
NY:: Random House,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1962. Hardcover. B-28 in the I Can Read It All By Myself Beginner Books series. Illustrated by the authors. First edition. Very good in a very good (moderate edge wear with a few short closed edge tears, small chip at the base of the spine), price clipped dust jacket. .
ASBURY PARK: BLUE FISHING

ASBURY PARK: BLUE FISHING by HARPER'S WEEKLY

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Seller: Antic Hay Books
Title
ASBURY PARK: BLUE FISHING
Author
HARPER'S WEEKLY
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Antic Hay Books (United States)
Description
1880. [HARPER'S WEEKLY]. ASBURY PARK, 1880. BLUE FISHING. A 15.5-inch by 10.5-inch hand-colored print from the July 3, 1880 issue of "Harper's Weekly" magazine depicting several men squidding for blue-fish on the beach at Asbury Park. Numerous oceanfront buildings and pavilions are shown in the background. Nice! $100.00.
United States of America Through the Stereoscope: One Hundred Outlooks from Successive Positions in Different Parts of the World's Greatest Republic

United States of America Through the Stereoscope: One Hundred Outlooks from Successive Positions in Different Parts of the World's Greatest Republic

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Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA
Title
United States of America Through the Stereoscope: One Hundred Outlooks from Successive Positions in Different Parts of the World's Greatest Republic
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good +
Description
United States of America: Underwood & Underwood, 1900. First Edition. Hardcover. Good +. 177pp. Duodecimo [19cm]; brown cloth covered boards with gilt title on spine and top board. Small chunk missing from head of backstrip; shelf wear to the boards and backstrip. Stain on front free endpaper; library stamp from Oliver Wendell Holmes Stereoscopic Research Library on front free endpaper. Includes four folding maps. A guidebook to accompany a set of stereographs that were taken all accross the United States. Included also are four folding maps which show the exact spot to stand for recreating the stereoscope image as well as an indicated direction to look.
Femme de Mouche

Femme de Mouche by Araki, Nobuyoshi

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Title
Femme de Mouche
Author
Araki, Nobuyoshi
Seller
Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9784943810933
Condition
Very good +
Description
Tokyo: Mizuki, 1994. Hardcover. Very good +/good +. Hardcover. 11 7/8" X 9 1/4". Two pages of text in Japanese, else completely in photographs. Pictorial dust jacket with obi, over paper boards. Moderate edgewear to dust jacket, with 1" closed tear to upper edge of rear panel. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. An appealing example, in full color and in black-and-white, of the erotic photogaphy of Nobuyoshi Araki (b. 1940).
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Theodore M. Lilienthal by Adams, Earl; Monihan, William J.; Magee, David; Crahan, Marc; Powell, Lawrence Clark

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Seller: Sanctuary Books
Title
Theodore M. Lilienthal
Author
Adams, Earl; Monihan, William J.; Magee, David; Crahan, Marc; Powell, Lawrence Clark
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Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Roxburghe & Zamorano Clubs / Grace Hoper Press, 1972. Limited edition of 150 copies (total limitation of 250). Paperback. Near Fine. Stitched wraps. Covers a little sunned and wrinkled along spine and edges, otherwise fine.
The Instructors' Handbook of the British Horse Society and The Pony Club

The Instructors' Handbook of the British Horse Society and The Pony Club

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
The Instructors' Handbook of the British Horse Society and The Pony Club
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Warwickshire, England: British Horse Society, 1968. Hardcover. Very Good. Fourth edition. 149pp. Lifting lamination and tears else very good.
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The British Schools and Universities Club of New York 1929-1940

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Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
Title
The British Schools and Universities Club of New York 1929-1940
Seller
Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
1940. Hardcover. Very Good. Very good Hardcover. Book has light wear of covers, light soiling covers, light cracking front hinge. Clean text and still tightly bound.
General-Register der Bande XXI bis XXXX der Astronomischen Nachrichten.

General-Register der Bande XXI bis XXXX der Astronomischen Nachrichten. by [Astronomischen Nachrichten] JAHN, Gustav Adolph (1804-1857) (ed.).

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Title
General-Register der Bande XXI bis XXXX der Astronomischen Nachrichten.
Author
[Astronomischen Nachrichten] JAHN, Gustav Adolph (1804-1857) (ed.).
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
Hamburg:: Perther- Besser & Mauke, 1856., 1856. 4to. (iv), 313, [1] pp. Indexes. Original printed wrappers; disbound, spine mostly missing. Substantially unopened. Very good (accept for binding). Gustav Adolph Jahn, a private scholar in Leipzig, knew the most outstanding German astronomers of the first half of the 19th century personally or corresponded with them. He saw his main duty in the popularization of astronomical and meteorological knowledge among all classes of people. He chaired the "Astronomische Gesellschaft zu Leipzig" (Leipzig Astronomical Society), edited a journal und supported the cooperation of professionals and amateurs. Many of his ideas were realised in the "Astronomische Gesellschaft" founded in 1863. [Summary of: Munzel, Gisela, "Gustav Adolf Jahn, a Leipzig Astronomer of the 19th Century", Acta Historica Astronomiae, Vol. 10, pp. 100-119].
Far Eastern Art in Upstate New York

Far Eastern Art in Upstate New York by Young, Martie W.

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Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB
Title
Far Eastern Art in Upstate New York
Author
Young, Martie W.
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG-. Minor wear to extremities. May have some foxing spots to page edging, but clean contents.
Description
Ithaca, New York: Office of University Publications, Cornell University, 1976. Softcover. VG-. Minor wear to extremities. May have some foxing spots to page edging, but clean contents.. Brown pictorial wraps with color illustration, white lettering. 140 pp. 141 bw figures. Accompanied a traveling exhibition of the same name that featured works of Far Eastern art from the collections of the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Albany Institute of History and Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Everson Museum of Art, Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester, and the Albright-Knox Art Gallery.
[POSTCARD] Thanksgiving Day Greetings

[POSTCARD] Thanksgiving Day Greetings

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Title
[POSTCARD] Thanksgiving Day Greetings
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lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition
Color illustrated postcard. Very good
Description
1913. Cards. Color illustrated postcard. Very good. 14 x 9 cm. Festive color illustrated and embossed vintage postcard. Pilgrim couple with pie, turkey and gun. Postmarked Auburn, ME Nov. 26, 1913, one cent stamp, "With love From A-", to Corinna, Maine.
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The Selected Letters of Henry Adams by ADAMS, Henry

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Seller: Argosy Book Store
Title
The Selected Letters of Henry Adams
Author
ADAMS, Henry
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good
Description
New York: Farrar Straus and Young, 1951. hardcover. very good. Ed. by Newton Arvin. 8vo, black cloth. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Young, (1951). Very good
My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937 (Dover Books on Chess)

My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937 (Dover Books on Chess) by Alekhine, Alexander

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Title
My Best Games of Chess, 1908-1937 (Dover Books on Chess)
Author
Alekhine, Alexander
Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780486249414
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Dover Publications, Inc, 1985. Reissue. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 5x1x8. Minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 1985 Trade Paperback. xvi, 267, xii, [4], 285, [18] pp. 1985 reissue combining works first published in 1927 and 1937. World Champion from 1927-35 and again from 1937-46, Alexander Alekhine ranks as one of the four or five greatest players in chess history. Edward Lasker rates him the game's supreme inventive genius; Euwe considers him the all-time greatest attacking player. A master of all phases of chess, his games were richly conceived and immensely complex. As Bobby Fischer observes in his writings, "He played gigantic conceptions, full of outrageous and unprecedented ideas." This unequaled collection reproduces Alekhine's 220 best games, his own personal accounts of the dazzling victories that made him a legend. Spanning almost thirty years of tournament play, it includes historic matches against Capablanca, Euwe, and Bogoljubov, and chronicles his brilliant ascent to world mastery, his surprising defeat in 1935, and his dramatic return two years later - the first deposed champion to regain his crown. Between 1927 and 1936 his successes in tournaments were unsurpassed by any master at any time in the history of chess. At San Remo 1930 and Bled 1931, in competitions that featured many of the world's greatest players, Alekhine so outdistanced the field that he was indisputably in a class by himself. In a career including some seventy tournaments, he won first prize forty-one times, tying for first on nine occasions. He won or shared second prize fourteen times. Chess was Alekhine's life; he lived for it alone. And although the final chapter of his career and his life were tragic, his achievements at the chessboard rank him as one of the game's true artists. Filled with Alekhine's own penetrating commentary on strategy and tactics, and enhanced by a revealing memoir, My Best Games is grandmaster chess at its most sublime.
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The Essene Gospel of Peace: Lost Scrolls of the Essene Brotherhood by Szekely, Edmond Bordeaux

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Title
The Essene Gospel of Peace: Lost Scrolls of the Essene Brotherhood
Author
Szekely, Edmond Bordeaux
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Academy, 1974. Very Good. Szekely, Edmond Bordeaux. The Essene Gospel of Peace: Lost Scrolls of the Essene Brotherhood. San Diego, CA: Academy, 1974. 148pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with light rubbing and bumping.

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