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Le vive imagini di tutti quasi gl'imperatori da C. Iulio Cæsare, in sino a Carlo. V

Le vive imagini di tutti quasi gl'imperatori da C. Iulio Cæsare, in sino a Carlo. V by Goltz Hubert

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Seller: The Book Block
Title
Le vive imagini di tutti quasi gl'imperatori da C. Iulio Cæsare, in sino a Carlo. V
Author
Goltz Hubert
Seller
The Book Block (United States)
Description
Antwerp (Gilles Coppens), 1557 [Colophon 1560]. Tall 4to. (12 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches), contemporary vellum with ties (renewed), and new endleaves; title lettered on the spine. First Spanish edition. Notwithstanding the presence of the woodcut title-page from the Latin edition and one leaf substituted [A6] from the Italian edition, the text and collation conforms to the Fairfax Murray copy [No. 187] of the first Spanish edition. That Coppens also published editions in French, German, Italian and Latin may account for the anomalies in our copy. In a cloth clam-shell case.This book begins with one the most remarkable title-pages of the 15th century, an example of Dutch mannerist ornamentation, executed in chiaroscurrtrait. It is followed by the Dedication to Philip II, the Prohemio de la obra, the Declaracion, and by 134 large (7 inches in diameter), medallion portraits of Roman and German emperors, all printed in chiaroscuro from blocks engraved and cut into wood by Josse Gietleughen after designs by the author. This splendid series of portraits, the first book to employ chiaroscuro woodcuts for illustration, were adapted after ancient coins by Hubert Goltzius (1526-1583). In those cases where he failed to find a satisfactory image as a model (fourteen Carolingian and Ottonian monarchs), Goltz decided instead to print a blank roundel accompanied by the appropriate text. The text in extremely erudite and is mostly concerned with the biographical data of the personalities depicted. The collation is: A, a-b, D-Z, Aa-Ee6, Ff-Gg4 (last blank, lacking) = 176 leaves, unnumbered. The paper used for the various editions of this work is invariably subject to discoloration and often the over-inked blocks have corroded the paper. Our copy has been carefully restored, including the repair of worm tracks and paper loss. Signatures. a & b should be marked B & C. They exactly imitate the same leaves in the 1557 Latin edition with the same blanks occurring, but with the following exceptions. No. 113 Charlemange and 131-132 (one portrait) Henry IV now supplied; the oval portrait of Philip and Maxmilian has disappeared, its place being taken by letterpress. Thus there is one more to add to those in the Latin edition, making 134 portraits in all. That of Ferdinand [155] is a new one; it is a bust only without crown, orb or scepter. The Spanish edition appears for sale far less frequently than the Latin, German, French and Italian editions. See: Fairfax Murray 187. Adams G840. Palau 103463. THE RARE SPANISH VERSION
Manuscript medical daybook / ledger

Manuscript medical daybook / ledger by Robin, Joseph Craven

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.
Title
Manuscript medical daybook / ledger
Author
Robin, Joseph Craven
Seller
Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Northumberland County, PA, 1849. Robin, Joseph Craven (1806-93). Manuscript medical daybook / ledger. Approx. 260pp., 19 or 20 pages pasted with clippings (primarily poetry). Northumberland County, PA, 1849-62. 328 x 203 mm. Original reverse calf stamped in black, worn. A few leaves in front loose, light toning and spotting, but a very good example. Medical ledger and daybook of Dr. Joseph Craven Robin, the first physician to locate and practice in Elysburg, Pennsylvania. "He first read medicine with his brother William at Sunbury, completing his professional preparation at the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1828 began practice at Sunbury. The following year he removed to Elysburg, at which point he was the first physician to locate permanently, and he was in active practice there for forty-two years, his field covering all the eastern part of Northumberland County and the adjoining portions of Montour, Columbia and Schuylkill counties. He was of the old 'saddle-bag' doctors, and in spite of the hardships of a physician's life in his day survived all his fellow practitioners who were in practice at the time his career began, living to the advanced age of eighty-seven years. He retired from active professional labors about 1870" (Floyd's Northumberland County Genealogy).
THE WORKS

THE WORKS by BOLINGBROKE, HENRY ST. JOHN, LORD VISCOUNT

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts
Title
THE WORKS
Author
BOLINGBROKE, HENRY ST. JOHN, LORD VISCOUNT
Seller
Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description
London: David Mallet, 1777. 308 x 238 mm. (12 x 9 1/4"). Five volumes.. IMPRESSIVE CONTEMPORARY TREE CALF, covers with gilt-rule border, raised bands, spines elegantly gilt in compartments with floral sprays at center and in corners, one red and one green morocco label, gilt-rolled turn-ins, marbled endpapers. With frontispiece portrait. Front pastedowns with engraved armorial bookplate of Merthyr Guest. ESTC T139449; Day, "History of English Literature 1660-1837," pp. 116-17. Three abrasions (one the size and shape of a little finger, all refurbished, though still noticeable), wear of not great importance to extremities (mainly lower corners), a few minor nicks or abrasions to the leather, trivial browning or marginal smudges in the text, but still AN EXTREMELY ATTRACTIVE SET on the shelf, REMARKABLY CLEAN, SMOOTH, AND FRESH INTERNALLY, with spacious margins, and with bindings that are lustrous and that feature especially attractive spines. This is a very handsomely bound large format set of writings by the dashing and eloquent Bolingbroke (1678-1751), focusing primarily on English history and political philosophy, but also including his letters to his friend Alexander Pope. Early in his public life, Bolingbroke was famous as a Restoration rake who was said to have been seen sprinting through a communal space intoxicated and in the nude. But after his life took a more sobering turn, he entered the government of Queen Anne as a Tory and was instrumental in the peace negotiations with France that ended the wars of Louis XIV. And when considered as a whole, his body of writings must be seen as the work of one of the great political thinkers of his era. According to Day, his political philosophy "rejected the divine right of kings and admitted the premise of the Bloodless Revolution, that the will of the people shall govern the nation. . . . He proposed the elimination of party and the strengthening of a truly representative Parliament through a broad franchise." And "in his proposals for a disinterested survey of history, he has been called the first Englishman truly to sense the continuity of history and to observe contemporary events as workings of fundamental human conflicts paralleling the past and developing out of it." But Bolingbroke's reputation among his contemporaries was damaged by shady financial dealings, dissolute ways, and vicious attacks on his opponents, all of which led to his writings being dismissed or overlooked for many years after his death. DNB observes that modern scholars view him as "a substantial, if flawed, political figure in Anne's reign and as a brilliant, if eventually unsuccessful, political writer in the age of Walpole. . . . Bolingbroke's writings tell us much about the ideological divisions that persisted under the first two Hanoverian monarchs. Although he lacked good sense and political judgement, Bolingbroke was widely read, wrote well, and did make a sincere effort to provide the disparate elements of the parliamentary opposition with a coherent political ideology and a moral platform." As one would expect, this tall, attractive set comes from a gentleman's library, that of Thomas Merthyr Guest (1838-1904), a retired army major and justice of the peace who came from a distinguished Welsh family that made their fortune in iron and steel works. His wife was the writer and philanthropist Lady Theodora Grosvenor Guest (1840-1924), daughter of the second Marquess of Westminster..
312 INDIVIDUAL MUSIC SHEETS From 1930-1960

312 INDIVIDUAL MUSIC SHEETS From 1930-1960 by (CZECH MUSIC SHEETS)

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312 INDIVIDUAL MUSIC SHEETS From 1930-1960
Author
(CZECH MUSIC SHEETS)
Seller
L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description
1930-1960. Popular and indigenous music published from 1946-1960. All in very good condition.8vo. Housed in a contemporary clam shell box.
Peer Gynt

Peer Gynt by Ibsen, Henrik; Rackham, Arthur (Illustrations)

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Title
Peer Gynt
Author
Ibsen, Henrik; Rackham, Arthur (Illustrations)
Seller
Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
London: George C. Harrap & Co. Ltd, 1936. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/very good +. Rackham, Arthur. First trade edition, quarto size, 256 pp., with original dust jacket. This volume the first trade edition of this work with the illustrations of Arthur Rackham (1867-1939), an eminent illustrator of many books which often depict fantasy and fairy tale subjects. Rackham contributed illustrations to many popular stories, such as "Cinderella", "Sleeping Beauty", "Alice in Wonderland", and the Brothers Grimm fairy tales. Known for his ability to produce both eerie, almost feral trees, goblins, and assorted other ne'er-do-wells while at the same time bringing to life breathtakingly lovely fairies, princesses, and good children, all brought to life by the incredibly talented Arthur Rackham. ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full brown cloth over boards, gilt decoration and lettering on the front and spine, pictorial endpapers, half-title with decoration in green, title page with small illustration above a decorative border in green, tissue-guarded frontispiece one of the twelve full-colour illustrations bound in throughout, the volume also replete with in-text illustrations and decorations all in black; quarto size (10" by 7 3/4"), pagination: [1-4] 5-256. With the publisher's dust jacket with an original Rackham wrap-around illustration, front flap with a list of "Illustrated Books by Arthur Rackham" and showing the original price of 15/- Net at the bottom, back flap blank. ___CONDITION: Fine, with clean boards utterly without wear, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, all illustrations present and each with their lettered tissue guard, and entirely free of prior owner markings; a hint of bumping to the head and tail of the spine, otherwise clean and crisp, in appearance almost as brand new. The unclipped dust jacket better than very good and could almost be deemed near fine, clean and complete, with light overall edgewear (most noticeable at the head and tail of the spine), a few short closed tears and some sunning to the spine. ___CITATIONS: Latimore & Haskell, p. 74, also p. 89 which notes that the dust wrapper "has [an] original drawing across the entire cover, done in red, black and white"; Riall p. 192, which describes the wrapper scene as "the evil king watching as Peer is surrounded by sinister animals and trolls, one holding the goblet." ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
Exhibition postcard: Mario Merz (opens 6 April 1977)

Exhibition postcard: Mario Merz (opens 6 April 1977) by (MERZ, Mario)

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Exhibition postcard: Mario Merz (opens 6 April 1977)
Author
(MERZ, Mario)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Printed on recto only. Thick paper postcard, mailed. Genoa: Salvatore Ala, 1977. Invitation to Merz’s 1977 show with Salvatore Ala (1941-2014). Ala founded his gallery in Milan in 1974 and hosted exhibitions for Boetti, Kounellis, and a number of Arte Povera artists. Keith Haring’s first Milan exhibition was held at Ala’s gallery. This example of the postcard invitation is particularly interesting because it was mailed to another important art dealer of the period, John Weber. Fine. Mailed to John Weber.
The Hate Merchant [Signed]

The Hate Merchant [Signed] by Niven Busch

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Title
The Hate Merchant [Signed]
Author
Niven Busch
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1953. First Edition. Signed by Busch with brief inscription at front free endpaper. Octavo. 339 pp. Illustrated dust jacket. Black and gray boards stamped in red and black. Unclipped dust jacket worn and creased along edges and folds with light chipping and several tears; mild spotting. Boards edgeworn and corners bumped. Binding sound. Bit of toning and spotting to endpapers; interior else unmarked; a Very Good copy.
Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories [Signed]

Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories [Signed] by Benson Saler; H.G. Hippenberg [ed.]; E.T. Lawson [ed.]

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Title
Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories [Signed]
Author
Benson Saler; H.G. Hippenberg [ed.]; E.T. Lawson [ed.]
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9789004095854
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. Near Fine/Very Good. New York: E.J. Brill, 1993. First Edition. Octavo. 292 pages. Signed by author on front free endpaper with inscription, "To Paula and Abe, / with fondest regards. / - Benson." Number 56 in the Numen Bookseries - Studies in the History of Religions. Purple illustrated dust jacket over brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and ornamentation. Jacket creased along edges and toned at rear panel, with some fading to front panel near spine. Boards tight and square in binding with a few specks to text block, else fine.
Silver. Its History and Romance

Silver. Its History and Romance by White, Benjamin

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Title
Silver. Its History and Romance
Author
White, Benjamin
Seller
Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
A very good copy, some soiling to front board, owner's name on half title, light foxing mostly to preliminaries, plates bright.
Description
London: Waterlow and Sons Ltd., 1920. Second edition. Decorated paper covered boards. A very good copy, some soiling to front board, owner's name on half title, light foxing mostly to preliminaries, plates bright.. xxix, 328 pp. Illus. with b/w photos and reproductions. Sm. 4to. White revised this book first published in 1917. A thorough discussion of the history of silver with special attention to Asia: India, China, and Japan.
India In Mind

India In Mind by PANKAJ MISHRA

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Title
India In Mind
Author
PANKAJ MISHRA
Seller
Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9780330439527
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition paperback with a complete number line. Near Fine with almost no shelf wear. Looks to be an unread copy. Not remaindered, not ex-library.
Poppa John
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Poppa John by Woiwode, Larry

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Title
Poppa John
Author
Woiwode, Larry
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9780374236304
Condition
Fine/Fine
Description
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Review copy with publisher's release letter and author's photograph laid-in.
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International Theatre by ANDREWS, John & TRILLING, Ossia, ed

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Title
International Theatre
Author
ANDREWS, John & TRILLING, Ossia, ed
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Description
hardcover. 228pp. 8vo, cloth, d.w.; (d.w. chipped & worn). (Great Britain, 1949).
The Wedding Dress : Stories form the Dakota Plains
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The Wedding Dress : Stories form the Dakota Plains by Young, Carrie

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Title
The Wedding Dress : Stories form the Dakota Plains
Author
Young, Carrie
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780440505242
Condition
Very Good
Description
Laurel, 1993. Very Good. Young, Carrie. The Wedding Dress : Stories form the Dakota Plains. New York: Laurel, 1993. 166pp. 12mo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good. Light rubbing to edges. A little underlining in ink to one section.

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