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THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITORIES by AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: THE BIRDS OF AMERICA, FROM DRAWINGS MADE IN THE UNITED STATES AND THEIR TERRITORIES
Author: AUDUBON, JOHN JAMES
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: New York: George R. Lockwood, [1870-71]. Final Octavo Edition. 275 x 175 mm. (10 3/4 x 7"). Eight volumes.. Publisher's full dark brown morocco, boards with intricate blind-stamped frame and central arabesque, raised bands, blind-tooled compartments with small centerpiece, turn-ins with floral gilt roll, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. With numerous woodcuts (mostly of avian digestive systems) in the text and 500 HAND-COLORED LITHOGRAPHIC PLATES. Tyler, "Audubon's Great National Work" 129, 165 note 10; Nissen IVB 51; Sabin 2364; Reese, "Nineteenth Century Color Plate Books" 34; Wood p. 208; Zimmer, p. 25. A couple of volumes with joints and extremities lightly rubbed, occasional faint foxing or trivial marginal stains, but A VERY FINE COPY, clean and fresh internally, with richly colored plates, in the little-worn original bindings. This is an exceptionally clean, fresh copy, inside and out, of one of the key books in any natural history library and one of the great books in the history of American publishing. The story of the conception and creation of Audubon's monumental achievement, the double elephant folio "Birds of America" (1827-28), is the stuff of legend, but its size and its expense put it beyond the reach of all but an elite few. The first octavo edition, issued in parts in 1840-44, was greeted with great enthusiasm by both critics and book buyers. Reese calls it "probably the greatest commercial success of any color plate book issued in 19th-century America." Although the illustrations had necessarily been reduced in size, they nevertheless were always characterized by pleasing composition, almost always characterized by a convincing verisimilitude, and not infrequently characterized by a richness and intensity of coloration. According to Tyler, the illustrations in our edition were printed, where possible, from the same stones and stereotype plates that had been made in the 1840s and 1850s. And these were never used again, as some time after 1871, a fire broke out in the Lockwood warehouse, and the Audubon plates were destroyed. Copies of the first (and other earlier) octavo printings of Audubon's "Birds" are obtainable, but at a substantially higher price than the present one. This final printing of the work offers the same contents, and our copy is unsurpassable in terms of condition, with both the contents and the bindings showing so little evidence of use..

NIGHT THOUGHTS BY EDWARD YOUNG, D.D. WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES CRITICAL & EXPLANATORY by (BINDINGS - HERING). YOUNG, EDWARD

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Title: NIGHT THOUGHTS BY EDWARD YOUNG, D.D. WITH THE LIFE OF THE AUTHOR, AND NOTES CRITICAL & EXPLANATORY
Author: (BINDINGS - HERING). YOUNG, EDWARD
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Printed by C. Whittingham for T. Heptinstall, 1798. 254 x 156 mm. (10 x 6 1/8"). 1 p.l., 22 pp., [1] leaf, 364 pp. CONTEMPORARY ACID-TREATED CALF BY CHARLES HERING [SR] (his ticket on verso of front free endpaper), covers framed by onlaid black morocco tooled with gilt floral rolls, central panel with large stencilled urn on a speckled ground, raised bands, spine compartments with gilt rule border and foliate cornerpieces as well as an oval urn-and-palm-frond centerpiece stamped in black, black and red morocco labels, turn-ins with gilt Greek key roll, brown endpapers with gilt floral frames, all edges gilt (front joint expertly renewed). Engraved title page, engraved frontispiece portrait, and eight engraved plates, all but one with tissue guards. ◆Rear joint, backstrip, and extremities a bit rubbed, spine a little crackled, faded, and abraded, title page and plates a bit foxed, leaves slightly browned at edge; not without condition issues, but still a carefully restored volume with most of its original considerable appeal intact. Even with its imperfections, this is an appealing example of the stencilled binding popular at the close of the 18th century but infrequently seen today. The funereal design of the stencils is well suited to the somber subject matter of the most frequently published English poem of the 18th century, here in a luxurious illustrated edition. Edward Young (1683-1765) began his immensely popular "Night Thoughts" in 1742 as an outlet for his grief over the death of his wife, step-daughter, and son-in-law. It is imbued with melancholy and prefigures the gothic taste of the following century. According to P. J. M. Marks' account of "The Edwards of Halifax Bindery," a number of binderies at the end of the 18th century experimented with decorative techniques using acid. "Designs were . . . made by sprinkling, marbling, staining and the use of stencils," with some of the designs (as here) incorporating images, especially of classical objects..

Militär Arbeit zum Nuzen [sic] eines hochlöblichen deutschen Infanterie Regiments von der Mark in k. franzöischen Diensten / Instruktions Plan und Manoeuvres nebst Grundzügen derselben by von Freiherrn von Haack, Ober. Lieutnant

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Title: Militär Arbeit zum Nuzen [sic] eines hochlöblichen deutschen Infanterie Regiments von der Mark in k. franzöischen Diensten / Instruktions Plan und Manoeuvres nebst Grundzügen derselben
Author: von Freiherrn von Haack, Ober. Lieutnant
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine; a ruled ink border on several pages is partially split because of ink acidity eating into the paper.
Description: Strasbourg, 1787. Full contemporary calf.. Near fine; a ruled ink border on several pages is partially split because of ink acidity eating into the paper.. 8vo, 194 pp. In a neat, legible German Gothic script. A detailed set of instructions for a German division under French command. Orders for maneuvers (field and under fire) down to the platoon level are present.

CANDY by Alexander, L. M. & Kent, Rockwell

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Title: CANDY
Author: Alexander, L. M. & Kent, Rockwell
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: CANDY, Dodd Mead, 1934, first edition, near fine in like dust-wrapper with 2 short closed tears. Illustrated by Rockwell Kent.

TRANSITAR POR LA LÍNEA

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Title: TRANSITAR POR LA LÍNEA
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
ISBN: 9789806467033
Description: Caracas: Museo Jacobo Borges, 1999. b/w and color plates, bio/chrons., cat., color pict. wrps. A unique illustrated protest catalogue that marked the beginning of El Proyecto Catia, as told to a child. The story of after the fall of the dictator, Marcos Pérez Jímenez in 1959. Families moved in and established ranches and used the train for work. Following Chávez's victory on February 2, 1999, a constituent process began that sought to "dignify" working-class neighborhoods like Catia.Tragedy of 1999: In December, torrential rains caused a national catastrophe. The government implemented the "Plan for the Dignification of the Venezuelan Family," with humanitarian aid and militarized relocation for victims from Catia and Vargas.The neigborhood protested the attempt to bulldoze the train and area forced them to leave the area.

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African Cities and the Development Conundrum by Ammann, Carole and Till Forster (Eds.)

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Title: African Cities and the Development Conundrum
Author: Ammann, Carole and Till Forster (Eds.)
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ISBN: 9789004387928
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Description: Leiden; Boston: Brill; Nijhoff [2018]. Paperback. 9.25" x 6". Red illustrated wraps. Rubbing to wraps. Near Fine. ISBN 9789004387928 . LikeNew. Paperback .

WHAT'S YOUR NAME? by ADAMIC, Louis

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Title: WHAT'S YOUR NAME?
Author: ADAMIC, Louis
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Inscribee's bookplate on front pastedown. Spine mildly sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper
Description: New York & London: Harper & Brothers, (1942). First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribee's bookplate on front pastedown. Spine mildly sunned. Very Good, lacking the dustwrapper. An examination of the evolution, intricacies, and absurdities of last names. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author in the year of publication on the front endpaper.

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