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Le Tonkin: Vues Photographiques (Tokin: Photographic Views) (2 vols.) [CONTAINING 113 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS] by Hocquard, Charles Edouard (photographer)

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Title: Le Tonkin: Vues Photographiques (Tokin: Photographic Views) (2 vols.) [CONTAINING 113 ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS]
Author: Hocquard, Charles Edouard (photographer)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g- to near fine condition
Description: Paris: Henry Cremenitz, 1886. First edition. Hardcover. g- to near fine condition. Folios. Red cloth over grey paper portfolios, with black lettering on the front covers. String-tied. 97 loose plates. This remarkable and historically important collection is comprised of 113 original b/w photographs taken between 1883-1886 in the area of Northern Vietnam by French medical doctor, explorer and award-winning photographer Charles-Édouard Hocquard (1853 -1911). Hocquard first volunteered in 1883, as a military medical doctor for the Tonkin Campaign. While there he used his position to extensively photograph the country. These images are significant in that they serve as invaluable visual documentation of and offer insight into the daily lives the people, the culture and landscape in the area of the Red River Delta and its surroundings, in Northern Vietnam (then known as Tonkin), as it was in the second half of the 19th century. Most notably, many of these images were taken during the period of France's "Tonkin Campaign" (1883-1886), and the Sino-French War (1884-1885). The French victory during these conflicts ultimately resulted in the beginning of the French colonial period in Vietnam, and the formation of the unified French Indochina. The wide range of images here include portraits, war images, street scenes, landscapes, architecture, still lifes, artisans and craftsmen, musicians and performers, governmental officials, diplomats, soldiers (French, Vietnamese and Chinese), and a number of gruesome images of beheadings and executions. Cities, towns and areas shown include: Hanoi (w/ the citadel), Son Tay, Ninh Bình, Lang Son, Bac Ninh, Nam Dinh, Phu Xa (Dong Dan), Hong Hoa and Dong Son. Although Hocquard's photographs of Tonkin during this period are known to number at least 250 images (and likely many more), publisher Henry Cremenitz offered a total of 240 images* to the public, starting sometime around 1886-1887. It is likely that these images were purchased at the discretion of the buyer. Those who bought a significant amount could have them housed in a custom portfolio. It is known that 117 of Hocquard's images of Tonkin were exhibited at the 1885 Antwerp International Exposition, and won him the gold medal. Although it is not known which images were shown, it can be assumed that many of the exhibited photographs are present in this collection. Some plates contain a single larger image measuring 9 1/2 x 7", while others contain two smaller plates each measuring 6 1/4 x 4". All images are numbered and include a text caption in French, at the bottom, set within each image. All plates are printed with a decorative Chinese-style border and publisher's credits in red. Portfolios with some scratches and stains as well as light rubbing to extremities. The front covers of all one portfolio has a few period notes in ink at the top. Plates throughout with occasional stains, age toning and/or rubbing and minor chipping to extremities, almost entirely confined to the margins. Most images throughout are still clean and vibrant. Portfolios in good- to very good condition. Plates in good+ to near fine condition overall. * A published catalog of images was issued by publisher Henry Cremenitz, naming all available plates in order. A copy of this list accompanies one of the collections held at the Biblioteque Nationale du France, and has been digitally scanned. It can be viewed on their online database. Large images: 81 Small images: 32 (on 16 plates, 2 per plate) Total plate count: 97 Total image count: 113 There are only 5 collections of these extremely scarce images held worldwide as recorded on OCLC none of which contain the full 240 images: - 3 collections at the Bibliteque Nationale du France (2 of which are scanned) - A small collection at the Bibliothèque centrale du service de santé des Armées (Army Health Service, Central Library) - The largest collection is held at the Getty (200 images).

THE GLASS MENAGERIE by WILLIAMS, Tennessee

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Title: THE GLASS MENAGERIE
Author: WILLIAMS, Tennessee
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Bottom corners of the book frayed with the board exposed a little. The dustwrapper has light chipping along the top and bottom e
Description: New York: Random House, (1945). First Edition. Hardcover. Bottom corners of the book frayed with the board exposed a little. The dustwrapper has light chipping along the top and bottom edges but presents quite well. Very Good in a Good or better dustwrapper. Bound in the publisher's coarse, dark reddish-orange cloth, one of three bindings with no priority established among them. Crandell A1.I.a. Illustrated with a frontispiece photograph from the original production. Only 5000 copies of this high spot of twentieth century drama were published. This copy is INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on the front endpaper "To Marshall/ever/Tennessee Williams." Marshall New was one of the directors at the Hippodrome Theatre in Gainesville, Florida, in 1979 when Williams visited a week to see a production of his obscure play TIGER TAILS, which had its world premiere the previous year in Atlanta.

Praxis Medica Remberti Dodonaei Mechliniensis by Dodoens, Rembert and Egbertsz, Sebastiaen

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Title: Praxis Medica Remberti Dodonaei Mechliniensis
Author: Dodoens, Rembert and Egbertsz, Sebastiaen
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: Amsterdam: Henrici Laurentij, 1616. First posthumous edition edited and annotated by Sebastiaen Egbertsz. MEDICAL TREATISE BY DUTCH PHYSICIAN TO EMPERORS--EDITED & ANNOTATED BY ANATOMIST PAINTED BY EMINENT DUTCH MASTERS. 16 x 10 x 4 cm hardcover, vellum binding, ink manuscript title to spine, red stained page edges, [1], [6], 618 pp, [6], [1 blank]. Ink inscription bottom of Preface, "NB. Scholier marginabus inscriptus Sunt D. Sebastiani Egberti, consule et Medico Amstelredamensi. Ibid Diction. historique de la Medec. Subtitule Dodoens." [NB. A scholar is inscribed on the margins, Dr. Sebastian Egbert, consul and physician of Amsterdam. Ibid. Historical Dictionary of Medicine. Under the entry "Dodoens." Light soiling to covers, light browning and scattered foxing to pages, leaf p 9/10 lower corner expertly repaired with minimal loss of text, several other pages with edge repairs not affecting text, faint water stain lower corner of pages. Binding tight, pages unmarked. An excellent copy of Dodoens's 127 medical lectures edited and annotated by Sebastian Egbertsz: a rare edition bringing together Dutch medical knowledge of 16th and 17th centuries. REMBERT DODOENS {1517 – 1585) was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the "father of botany." Dodoens was born Rembert van Joenckema in Mechelen, then the capital of the Spanish Netherlands in 1517. His father was one of the municipal physicians in Mechelen and a private physician to Margaret of Austria, Governor of the Netherlands, in her final illness. Rembert later changed his last name to Dodoens. Dodoens was educated at the municipal college in Mechelen before beginning his studies in medicine, cosmography and geography at the age of 13 at the University of Leuven. He graduated with a licentiate in medicine in 1535, and as was the custom of the time, began extensive travels in Europe till 1546, including Italy, Germany, France, and a stay in Basel 1542–1546. In 1548, Dodoens followed in his father's footsteps by becoming one of the three municipal physicians in Mechelen together with Joachim Roelandts and Jacob De Moor. In 1575–1578, he was the court physician of the Holy Roman emperor Maximilian II and his successor Austrian emperor Rudolph II in Vienna. In 1582, he was appointed professor of medicine at the University of Leiden. He died in Leiden in 1585, and was buried at Pieterskerk, Leiden. SEBASTIAEN EGBERTSZ (1563 – 1621), alias Sebastianus Egberti, was a professor of anatomy at the Atheneum Illustre in Amsterdam. He was a member of the Raed of Amsterdam from 1602 to 1618 and burgomaster in 1606 and 1608. He was the subject of the oldest known painting of an anatomy lesson. Anatomy lessons were a social event in the 17th century, taking place in lecture rooms that were actual theatres, with students, colleagues and the general public being permitted to attend on payment of an entrance fee. The spectators are appropriately dressed for this social occasion. The Amsterdam Historical Museum has a large collection of paintings of anatomy lessons, painted when surgeons followed the popular sixteenth century trend for group portraits. The very first, a painting of an anatomy lesson given by Sebastiaen Egbertsz de Vrij, was painted by Aert Pietersz (1550 - 1612) in 1601-1603. In this picture all of the master surgeons are gathered fraternally around the dissecting table, and Doctor Sebastiaen Egbertsz. is just about to begin the anatomy lesson. The picture recalls sixteenth-century group portraits of fraternities and civic guards, this time, however, the traditional banquet has been replaced by an anatomy lesson as the connecting element in the composition. The discreet placement of the cadaver on the table confirms that the sitters were interested primarily in their likenesses. Every single gaze is directed at the viewer. A second depiction of Dr. Egbertsz was painted by Nicolaes Pickenoy (1588 – 1656). The earliest picture ascribed to the artist is "Dr. Sebastiaen Egbertz de Vrij's Osteological Presentation" of 1619, now in Amsterdam Historisch Museum. Around 1638 he bought the house next to Rembrandt van Rijn, a house that was the center of Amsterdam portraiture for decades. In 1639 Rembrandt returned to the neighbourhood as he bought the house next to Pickenoys, on the site of the present day Rembrandthuis.

FOLIO ENGRAVED PLATES. Characteristic Sketches of Animals, Pricipally in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, Drawn from the Life and Engraved by Thomas Landseer: with descriptive and illustrative notices by John Henry Barrow, Esqre., Dedicated by Permission to the Zoological Society by Landseer, Thomas and Barrow, John Henry

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Title: FOLIO ENGRAVED PLATES. Characteristic Sketches of Animals, Pricipally in the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, Drawn from the Life and Engraved by Thomas Landseer: with descriptive and illustrative notices by John Henry Barrow, Esqre., Dedicated by Permission to the Zoological Society
Author: Landseer, Thomas and Barrow, John Henry
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: London: Moon, Boys, and Graves, 1832. First edition. 1832 FOLIO WITH DRAMATIC ORIGINAL ETCHINGS OF ANIMALS FROM THE LONDON ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS BY EMINENT VICTORIAN ARTIST--COPY OF NOTED COLLECTOR. 26x37 cm folio recent 3/4 brown calf with marbled boards, spine with raised bands and gilt title black leather label, silk page marker, recent endpapers. Armorial bookplate of William Fuller Maitland of Stansted Hall to front paste-down, bookplate of Robert L Chevalier to front free endpaper. Unpaginated. 32 full-page engraved plates by Landseer interpersed with descriptive text by John Henry Barrow. Many of the text-pages have small engravings with imaginative scenes depicting interactions among species. Light foxing sparing most of the plates, very good minus. THOMAS LANDSEER (1793–1880) was an artist best known for his engravings and etchings, particularly those of paintings by his youngest brother Edwin Landseer. Landseer was born in London, the eldest of the fourteen children of engraver John Landseer. Like his father, Thomas was deaf. Like his siblings, Landseer was taught artistic techniques by his father. He then studied under painter Benjamin Robert Haydon alongside his brother Charles and William Bewick. His soft-ground etchings complemented his brother's animal paintings, and sales of the popular prints (retailing for between 3 and 10 guineas) contributed to his brother's fame and fortune. He assisted his brother with giving art lessons to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Landseer produced satirical etchings of monkeys in human clothing for Monkeyana, or, Men in Miniature (1827), and dedicated his Characteristic Sketches of Animals (offered here) to the Zoological Society. He was elected an associate of the Royal Academy in 1867 for his etchings. JOHN HENRY BARROW (1817 – 1874) was a Congregational minister, journalist and South Australian politician. Born in England, Barrow emigrated to Adelaide, South Australia. The Clayton Chapel was built for him, but though an excellent preacher, Barrow was unsure whether his real work lay in church life, and he resigned his pastorate in 1858 to enter the South Australian House of Assembly as the member for East Torrens. PROVENANCE: WILLIAM FULLER MAITLAND (1813–1876) was an English art collector. He was the heir of Ebenezer Fuller Maitland, of Stansted, Essex, and Park Place, Berkshire. During journeys to Italy Maitland encountered the works of early Italian masters. Their paintings formed the basis of a major part of his collection. English landscape painting was also largely represented. Maitland contributed to the Old Masters' Exhibitions of the Royal Academy, lending pictures over many years. After his death the bulk of his collection was exhibited at the South Kensington Museum; and subsequently nine of the major pictures were sold to the National Gallery, London.

Physiology testing apparatus - instrument catalogs by GERMAN INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION

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Title: Physiology testing apparatus - instrument catalogs
Author: GERMAN INSTRUMENTS OF PRECISION
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Condition: There is some occ. chipping and separation of wrappers; otherwise very good.
Description: Various places: Various publishers, ca 1890. First Editions.. Original printed wrappers.. There is some occ. chipping and separation of wrappers; otherwise very good.. 8vo. All are illustrated. A superb group of late 19th century trade catalogs for German manufacturers of precision instruments for medical laboratories. In the instance of Petzold the firm was also known for its astronomical instruments. They are as follows: 1] W Petzhold - Instrumente und Apparate Physiologische Experimente und Vivisectionen, Leipzig, 1888, 8vo., 20 pp., illustrated.; 2] E Zimmermann - Preis-Verzeichniss uber Apparate zu psychologischen u. physiologischen Experimenten, Leipzig, 1894, 20 pp.; 3] O Moecke {inhaber der firma O Hornn} - Illustrietes Preis-Verzeichniss chirurgischer Instrumente ...., Leipzig, [1888]; 4] W Pfeffer - Ein neuer heizbarer Objecttisch ...., Leipzig, 1890, 18 pp., illustrated - WITH separately printed advertisements for the thermostat and object table (in proof); 5 ] F Majer - Physiologische Apparate, [Leipzig], [1888], illustrated - WITH an albumen print of the Hurthle kymographion and three sheets of autograph notes (identified as 1897) in a clear hand describing same and its use and adjustment manufactured by Eugen Albrecht of Tubingen (Universitats-Mechanikus). A rare group of German instrument makers catalogs. The Moecke has one holding in OCLC at Leipzig; everything else is unlocated.

An Essay on the Torpidity of Animals by Reeve, H - PHYSIOLOGY

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Title: An Essay on the Torpidity of Animals
Author: Reeve, H - PHYSIOLOGY
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A good copy; binding somewhat worn; jts. cracked but holding.
Description: London: Longman, Hurst ...., 1809. First Edition.. full contemp. calf.. A good copy; binding somewhat worn; jts. cracked but holding.. 8vo. Reeve was dead by age 34 and this is his only published book on a medical topic. He was a friend of Davy and Coleridge and together with Dr. Thomas Bateman founded the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal. The book offered here is a study of the phenomena of hibernation and the accompanying physiological changes. Reeve addresses many associated topics, e.g., drowning, migration. DNB XVI, 849.

Robert Motherwell: The complete prints 1940-1991: A catalogue raisonné by ENGBERG, Siri & BANACH, Joan

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Title: Robert Motherwell: The complete prints 1940-1991: A catalogue raisonné
Author: ENGBERG, Siri & BANACH, Joan
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Description: Minneapolis: Walker Art Center; New York: Hudson Hills, 2003. FIRST EDITION. Numerous black and white photographic illustrations, plus 536 full-color prints. Publisher’s cloth, titles in silver, original photographic illustrated dust jacket; in excellent condition. First edition of this new work covering all of Motherwell’s prints. This catalogue raisonné, with a new text, chronology and bibliography, does contain a concordance referencing prints which were included in his earlier catalogue raisonné. It also contains an essay on Motherwell’s print-making history. Motherwell (1915-1991), abstract artist and print-maker, was the youngest of the New York school of artists that included Jackson Pollack, Mark Rothko and Willem de Kooning. His work often touched on political and social events and movements. And unlike his abstract expressionist colleagues, Motherwell became a renowned and celebrated print-maker. His work has been the subject of numerous exhibitions and retrospectives.

[MINIATURE] [FOREIGN LANGUAGES] MIEDZYNARODOWKA | L'INTERNATIONALE | THE INTERNATIONALE | LA INTERNACIONAL | DIE INTERNATIONALE by [Ruth E. Adomeit]

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Title: [MINIATURE] [FOREIGN LANGUAGES] MIEDZYNARODOWKA | L'INTERNATIONALE | THE INTERNATIONALE | LA INTERNACIONAL | DIE INTERNATIONALE
Author: [Ruth E. Adomeit]
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good binding
Description: Ksiazka i Wiedza: Warszawa, 1975. Full Leather. Very Good binding. Miniature; in the publisher's red leather binding, with titling stamped to the upper board in white and a red gilt, with a single silver star stamped on the spine; 2 7/8" x 2 1/4"; 58 pages, [59] [4]; with frontispiece; pages 8-11 have the International set to music; printed in black and red, and with illustrations in black and red; there are no marks in the book; there is a bit of toning to the endpapers and some trivial discoloration to the edges of the text block; binding is very lightly splayed..~~An uncommon multilingual version of The International. We locate a scant handful of copies on OCLC. Very Good binding.

A LIST OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SEQUEL STORIES by ALDRED, Thomas

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Title: A LIST OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SEQUEL STORIES
Author: ALDRED, Thomas
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Description: ALDRED, Thomas. A LIST OF ENGLISH AND AMERICAN SEQUEL STORIES. London: The Library Assistants' Association, 1922. Small 4to. 74 pages. Firs edition. With bookplate of the Society of Writers to his Majesty's Signet. Boards slightly soiled, else very good.

It Is the Hour of Love! by Weber, C. H., music and G. D. Prentice, words

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Title: It Is the Hour of Love!
Author: Weber, C. H., music and G. D. Prentice, words
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Louisville: W. C. Peters, 1844. Paperback. Very Good. 4p. Disbound (removed from a bound volume). 34 cm. Moderate foxing around edges. Decoration and lettering in a pale shade of red on the front cover. Small illustration in black and white on the front cover of a minstrel who is playing a stringed instrument while standing in a small boat beneath a window where a young woman is standing.

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