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Title: Biblia Latina (With printed summaries by Menardus Monachus)
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Description: Ulm: Johann Zainer, 29 January, 1480. FIRST BIBLE PRINTED AT ULM. Hardcover. Fine. An excellent copy, with noble provenance, of this magnificent Bible. A very large, impressive copy, with broad margins, preserving numerous deckled edges. The quires are numbered in a contemporary hand, in red ink, at the foot of leaves. The stub for the canceled blank leaf ll3 (the conjugate of leaf ll9) is visible, with instructions to the binder. With numerous blue fabric tabs, each marking an individual book of the Bible. Rubricated throughout, with a few larger red brushwork initials and red and blue Lombard capitals, red paragraph marks and capital strokes. The book is adorned with Zainer’s distinctive, large woodcut initials, a larger decorative marginal decoration, and a woodcut of Saint Jerome in his study, working on the Vulgate. on first text leaf (a few corners torn away, one affecting the woodcut decoration in the margin; damp-staining in gutter and lower margin, some light dust-soiling at ends. Occ. natural paper flaws in the blank margins of the paper, (ex. Leaf l8, p3, oo8) not affecting the text. Bound in contemporary Moravian binding of blindstamped tanned pigskin over wooden boards, nicely rebacked in the mid 19th c., with gilt spine, lacking clasps and catches. The leather of the boards is worn, with small losses to the leather exposing the wooden boards in two places. The richly-tooled binding features tools associated with a workshop that produced bindings for the monastery (see below.) Provenance: 1. With an inscription of the Carthusian monastery of the Holy Trinity, Brno, Moravia (dissolved in 1782). 2. Library of the Princes of Liechtenstein (bookplate), sold in 1949 by Prince Franz Joseph II (1906–1989) to H.P. Kraus. 3. Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg, acquired from H.P. Kraus, New York, 20 November 1957. The only Bible printed at Ulm in the 15th century, by Ulm’s first printer, in a contemporary binding. This Bible is illustrated with numerous large, intricate, and unusual woodcut initials. Zainer was likely the brother of Gunther Zainer, first printer at Augsburg. Both men were innovators in printed book illustration. With the Canon of Hebrew names, printed annotations in the margins of the New Testament, and printed summaries at the beginning of each book. An inscription on the recto of the first blank leaf indicates that this Bible was the property of the Carthusian monastery of the Church of the Holy Trinity in Brno, Moravia in the 15th c. According to Jiøí Glonek (“Knihvazačská dílna královopolských kartuziánů”), the binding was produced in a workshop in Brno, located in a building used by the Carthusians, close to St. Jacob’s church. The bindery existed from the 1460s until 1516 and produced bindings for the monastery as well as St. Jacob’s. Despite the fact that the bindery was located outside of the monastery (unlike the bindery at the Carthusian monastery of Olomouc) Glonek, who has made an in-depth study of the extant bindings, concludes that the bindery was operated by the Carthusians. At its height, the bindery used over 61 different tools. Among the tools used on the binding of the Ulm Bible are: EBDB s020741 (scroll), EBDB s020731 (dog), EBDB s020720 (Fabelwesen), Glonek 30 (palmette). The Carthusian monastery at Brno was founded by the Margrave of Moravia, Jan Jindøich, younger brother of the Czech King, Emperor Charles IV. Jindøich invited the first member of the Carthusian order, Gottfried of Enns, from the Austrian Charterhouse in Gaming to Brno as early as 1369, and six years later issued the founding charter of the monastery with the consent of his wife, Elizabeth, and his sons. The foundation charter is dated August 13 1375. The charterhouse was not incorporated into the order until the following year… “It is understood that the Carthusian library was founded together with the monastery; as of 1387, there is a mention that Jan Czapfel, a chaplain at the Church of St. Jacob in Brno, dedicated his library to the Královo Pole Carthusians. According to this mention, the manuscripts in the collection were donated by Jan Czapfel to the Carthusians even earlier. From the end of the fourteenth century, there was a bookbinding workshop for the monastery, the peak of which dates back to the second half of the fifteenth century. “[As part of the religious reforms undertaken by Joseph II], the monastery was dissolved by decree on 12 January 1782, along with other monasteries that did not establish a school or a hospital and the brethren of which did not hold a preaching or a priesthood position. The dissolution committee arrived in Moravia six days later… The library, at the time, possessed fewer than 3,000 volumes, including manuscripts and incunabula… [A] total of 145 volumes, including manuscripts and incunabula) were sent to the Imperial Royal Court Library in Vienna after 10 March 1784… “Books that were not selected for the Court Library in Vienna went to auction, which took place from 7 September 1786 to the end of 1790. We do not know exactly which of the auctions the Carthusian books were sold at, but they probably went to sale at the first September and October auctions in Brno, together with collections from other Brno monastery libraries.(Jindr Pavelková, The Library Collection of the Brno Charterhouse in the Rajhrad Monastery Library, in “Monastic Libraries in East Central and Eastern Europe between the Middle Ages and the Enlightenment”(Monastica Historia Volume 5).

[De Architectura libri decem], M. Vitruuius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula vt iam legi et intelligi possit by Vitruvius [Marcus Vitruvius Pollio] (ca. 80 – 15 BCE)

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Title: [De Architectura libri decem], M. Vitruuius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula vt iam legi et intelligi possit
Author: Vitruvius [Marcus Vitruvius Pollio] (ca. 80 – 15 BCE)
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Description: Venice: Giovanni Tacuino da Trino, 1511. THE FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION OF VITRUVIUS, edited by the architect Fra Giovanni Giocondo. Hardcover. Fine. Text printed in Roman type, with a few words in Greek. The publisher’s orb and cross device appears on the penultimate leaf and in the illustration on leaf H5 verso. The text is illustrated with 136 woodcuts measuring from 52 x 128 mm. to 230 x 132 mm. These are diagrams, plans, architectural details, and illustrations of engineering machinery in use. The block on leaf G8 verso is printed upside down. The title features an elaborate woodcut title border with dolphins. A very fine copy bound in 18th c. English paneled calf (rebacked, corners bumped, extremities worn, modern endpapers.) The leaves are very fine and unwashed, with numerous 16th c. marginal annotations in Books I-III and less frequently in Books 4, 8, and 10; the woodcut on leaf folio 41 verso colored at an early date. Minor cosmetic blemishes as follows; title v. lightly soiled, light oil stain to upper margin of folio 77; folio 97 recto dusty and with a few light stains; light marginal dampstain to lower outer corner of final gathering; last leaf soiled on verso, occ. marginal soiling. The 1511 edition of Vitruvius’ “De architectura” marks a revolutionary development in the Renaissance reception of Vitruvius and the book’s influence on Renaissance architecture. It holds the distinction of being the first illustrated edition, with woodcuts based on drawings by the editor, the Veronese architect and engineer Fra Giovanni Giocondo, whose achievements include the construction of the bridge of Notre Dame in Paris and his appointment as architect of Saint Peter’s basilica in Rome. The book, illustrated with 136 woodcuts (some inspired by illuminated drawings in the Vatican Library), was printed in Venice, where Fra Giocondo served as chief architect for Venice’s ruling Consiglio dei dieci (“Council of ten”). While beautiful, the woodcuts were not intended as merely decorative but rather as practical visual aids for architects, urban planners, and engineers. The title explains their function explicitly: “M. Vitruvius per Iocundum solito castigatior factus cum figuris et tabula ut iam legi et intelligi possit” (“M. Vitruvius, made more correct, with figures and tables to make it possible to read and understand the text”.) The explanatory “tables” mentioned in the title are found at the end of the book, with the text printed in three columns. Also a learned humanist, Fra Giocondo improved the text, filling in lacunae using manuscripts unknown to earlier editors and providing shoulder notes in the margins. The book, therefore, served two audiences: the humanist theorists who influenced Renaissance culture; and the architects, craftsmen, and urban planners who realized these concepts in concrete form. In his dual capacity as architect/engineer and humanist, Fra Giocondo was uniquely qualified to influence the shaping of Renaissance Venice. In his professional capacity, he was charged with the improvement of the city’s infrastructure, in particular the amelioration of the build-up of silt in the Venetian lagoon. As an intellectual, close to the future Doge Andrea Gritti, he helped realize the “Renovatio urbis” (the “renewal of the city”), satisfying the Venetians’ desire to see their city reflect principles of classical culture and design. Fra Giocondo’s 1511 Vitruvius is a testament to the confluence of these two currents, the intellectual and the practical, which would raise Venice in a short time to a city that could compete with Renaissance Rome as a magnet for architects. Moreover, the book’s editorial and graphic excellence exerted a profound influence on later editions. The significance of Giocondo and his book in the development of Venice was succinctly stated by the 18th c. art historian Scipione Maffei, who wrote that Giocondo “could be called the second edificator of Venice” (“potea chiamarsi secondo edificator di Venezia”.) “Fra (Frate) Giovanni Gioconda was one of the most distinguished architectural theorists and practitioners of his time. During his long career he served three kings -Ferrante of Naples, Charles VIII, and Louis XII of France- the Venetian republic, and the papacy. “During his stay in Naples, Fra Gioconda met several distinguished Renaissance architects and humanists and began his work on Vitruvius. In c. 1489 he may have contributed to the engineering project to bring water to Poggio Reale and to the moats of Naples; he overlapped with Giuliano da Sangallo, whom he met again at the end of their lives in Rome at the construction site of Saint Peter's. In 1492 he is recorded as taking an apprentice in Naples for five years. That year he may also have worked with Francesco di Giorgio Martini on a translation and illustration of Vitruvius, which Francesco offered to the duke of Calabria… “After the invasion of Naples by the French army, Fra Gioconda was invited back to France by Charles VIII; he is documented in France in 1498 and was there perhaps as early as 1495. In 1500 he built the bridge of Notre Dame in Paris, considered by Vincenzo Scamozzi as the first classical bridge of the Renaissance… Fra Giocondo's presence in Paris marks the beginning of Vitruvian studies in France; the public and private lectures that he offered are documented by the notes of his pupil Guillaume Budé… “Fra Giocondo passed from French royal service into the service of the Venetian republic, where he worked as hydraulic and military engineer between 1506 and 1514. He worked on the improvements of the port of Venice, threatened by deposits of the Brenta river. In 1514 he made a design for the Rialto bridge and surrounding buildings in Venice in the form of a Roman forum… “Fra Giocondo's publication of his edition of Vitruvius in 1511 is the best remembered of his Venetian projects. It was dedicated to Pope Julius II, at a time when Venice was making its peace with the papacy, and Fra Giocondo may have envisaged his own, eventually realized, move to Rome. Fra Giocondo's claim for his edition is that he reconciled the reconstituted Latin text with the extant ancient Roman ruins… “Fra Giocondo had distinguished counselors in Venice, including Pietro Bembo, Giovanni Lascaris, and Giovanni Marco da Landinara, an expert in optics, who assisted him with the illustrations. The graphic segment is in fact the great breakthrough of Fra Giocondo's edition… The woodcut illustrations, based on drawings probably prepared by Fra Giocondo himself, are assumed to have been made by the publisher… “Fra Giocondo's stellar career was crowned by appointment to papal service in 1513, when he was nominated architect of Saint Peter's upon the death of Donato Bramante. He occupied this position with Raphael and with Giuliano da Sangallo, with whom he also shared a great interest in architectural theory and archaeology. Lavishly salaried and provisioned by the pope, Fra Giocondo was encouraged to live well and remain in good physical condition; but he was already eighty. Raphael believed that Fra Giocondo was "given to him by the pope" to learn his architectural secrets; in fact they talked every day about the building of Saint Peter's, where they probably focused on stabilizing the foundations of the basilica.”(Millard Catalogue) Vitruvius’ “On Architecture”: “De architectura” is the only text of Greco-Roman architecture that has survived from antiquity. It’s importance in the history of Western architecture from the Renaissance to the nineteenth-century is immeasurable, and it remains, to this day, fundamental to the historical study of architecture. Though not quite forgotten in the Middle Ages, Vitruvius’ treatise experienced a revival in the fifteenth-century and soon became a central text for architects and architectural theorists… “Based on Vitruvius' own experience and dedicated to the Emperor Augustus, the treatise was the result of two separate writing campaigns. Vitruvius affirms that he spent thirty-five to forty years on the composition of his treatise. There is a sixty-threeitem bibliography, which is the only reference we have to Vitruvius' ancient sources on architecture… “In the first book, Vitruvius discusses the elements of architecture, the siting of the town, its fortifications, its streets, and the location of its principal buildings. Book 2 is devoted to building materials but also explores the origin of buildings and the characteristics of the four natural elements. Books 3 and 4 are concerned with temples; in an earlier version they probably formed one book. At the beginning of book 3, Vitruvius offers his fundamental anthropomorphic proportional system for architecture. He discusses temple types, columns and intercolumniations, foundations, and the Ionic order. The Corinthian order, the origin of orders, and the proportions of the Tuscan order are among the subjects of book 4. In books 5 and 6, Vitruvius shifts attention toward the interior of buildings, and from sacred to functional structures. Thus in book 5 he explores the major public buildings and spaces of the Roman city, which include the forum, the basilica, the curia, the baths and gymnasia, and harbors. He compares the Greek and Roman theaters in a passage that became invaluable for Renaissance readers. Book 6, on private dwellings, is a fundamental part of the treatise. Here Vitruvius examines Roman and Greek houses, setting out their principal rooms, their proportions, exposure, size, and embellishments. These six books may have formed the original treatise in its first arrangement, which Vitruvius offered to Julius Caesar. The remaining four books were composed subsequently. “Book 7 deals with the cladding of buildings, the finishing materials for floors, walls, and ceilings, including a discussion of decorations appropriate to wall painting. The last three books deal with technical matters; concerned respectively with hydraulics, timepieces and machinery, they seem most distant from our own interpretation of the discipline of architecture. In book 8, Vitruvius displays his great practical experience in finding, conducting, and taming water. In book 9 -the least susceptible to updating of the entire treatise Vitruvius amplified his discussion of clocks extensively with lore concerning the planets and the phases of the moon, the constellations, complicated sundials, and water clocks. Frank Brown (1981) believes that books 8 and 9 were written last… “Book 10 is the longest chapter, ‘crowded with Vitruvius' experience’ in engineering. This book is an essential textbook of contemporary technology, to be used in peace and war. Vitruvius first considers the principles and vocabulary of mechanics. He then examines various pieces of machinery such as pulleys for hoisting, wheels and bucket-chains for raising water, sluices and millstreams, the endless screw, the force-pump, the water organ, and the odometer for the measurement of land and sea travel. Among his war engines are catapults and ballistae, battering rams, towers, and armored sheds. “The Vitruvian text became for Renaissance architecture what biblical studies had been for theology. It became the foundational Urtext of architectural theory and practice, with a huge afterlife. His precepts were examined as valuable instruction and dependable theory for architecture in the Renaissance, when -searching for an ancient Roman source humanists and architects became interested enough to sort out his text… “Vitruvius' treatise was fundamental for the two main research interests in Roman architecture in the first decades of the sixteenth century: the archaeological verification of the Renaissance architectural style through the theory of the classical orders, and the elaboration or creation of new urban housing forms. Books 4 and 6 thus received particularly intense commentary. Other extensively studied passages in the text included the discussion of the modes of graphic representation of architecture, the origin of human shelter, the anthropomorphic proportional system of classical architecture, and the ideal planning of cities. Furthermore, each commentator on Vitruvius attempted to situate the text so as to verify current practices and architectural composition, thus using the authority of the text to justify personal or regional practices. Vitruvius became an important guide to the understanding of the archaeological remains of Rome, but a problematic one, since his descriptions often clashed with the reality of imperial Roman architectural ruins strewn about the Renaissance city.”(Millard Catalogue).

Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or wysedome, moche necessary for all men to read and know, wherein suche as be in aduersitie, shall fynde muche consolation and comforte, and suche as be in great worldly prosperitie may knowe the vanitie and frailtie therof, and consequently fynde eternall felycytie. And this boke is in maner of a dialoge or communication betwene two persones, the one is Boecius, and the other is Philosophy, whose disputations and argumentes do playnly declare the diuersitie of th lyfe actiue, that consisteth in worldly, temporall, and transitory thynges, ... Translated out of Latin into the Englyshe toungue by George Coluile, alias Coldewel, to thintent that such as be ignoraunt in the Latin tongue, and can rede Englyshe, maye vnderstande the same. And to the mergentes is added the Latin, accordynge to the boke of the translatour, whiche was a very olde prynte by Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (480-525 A.D.); Coleville, George, translator (fl. 1556)

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Title: Boetius de Consolationae [sic] Philosophiæ. The boke of Boecius, called the comforte of philosophye, or wysedome, moche necessary for all men to read and know, wherein suche as be in aduersitie, shall fynde muche consolation and comforte, and suche as be in great worldly prosperitie may knowe the vanitie and frailtie therof, and consequently fynde eternall felycytie. And this boke is in maner of a dialoge or communication betwene two persones, the one is Boecius, and the other is Philosophy, whose disputations and argumentes do playnly declare the diuersitie of th lyfe actiue, that consisteth in worldly, temporall, and transitory thynges, ... Translated out of Latin into the Englyshe toungue by George Coluile, alias Coldewel, to thintent that such as be ignoraunt in the Latin tongue, and can rede Englyshe, maye vnderstande the same. And to the mergentes is added the Latin, accordynge to the boke of the translatour, whiche was a very olde prynte
Author: Boethius, Anicius Manlius Severinus (480-525 A.D.); Coleville, George, translator (fl. 1556)
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Description: London: In Paules churche yarde at the sygne of the holy Ghost, by Ihon Cawoode, prynter to the Kynge and Quenes Maiesties, 1556. FIRST EDITION of Coleville’s translation. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary English calfskin, rebacked in the 19th c., a few patches to the leather of the boards. Text in very good condition with occasional browning, darker in signatures I and K. Light dampstain to signatures T, Z, Bb, and Ff. Text in Latin and English in two columns, the former printed in italics and the latter in black letter, small woodcut initials. Very rare. Only 5 U.S. copies in ESTC: Folger (Defective), Harvard, Huntington, Yale, Illinois. Dedicated to Queen Mary Tudor, Coleville’s English translation of Boethius’ masterpiece is the only early English translation to include the original Latin text, indicating that, in addition to those readers with no knowledge of Latin, the author took into consideration the more educated, Latin-literate English audience. Coleville provides interesting marginal glosses and explanatory notes, including the tale of the sword of Damocles. In an amusing instance, either through ignorance or prudishness, he explains that the beautiful youth Alcibiades was a woman(!) But, remarkably, Coleville also incorporates such explanations as amplifications into the text itself, such as when Coleville seeks to clarify astronomical and meteorological references in Boethius’ text. The result is a rendering of Boethius’ work that offers us insight to the way in which the “Consolation”, a work in which references to Christianity are noticeably absent, was interpreted by a mid-16th c. English Catholic educated in the humanist tradition. As Kenneth Hawley observes: “The translation is replete with Coleville’s own insertions that attempt to amplify and/or clarify something he considers ambiguous or partially true. In his presentation of the passage wherein Lady Philosophy asserts that all motion and mutability derive ultimately ‘ex diuinæ mentis stabilitate’, Colville identifies the divine as God and divides his mind into its constituent parts, so that such changeable things exist ‘by the stedfastnes of gods wyll and pleasure’. Thus, God’s intellectual immutability allows such moved things to exist and holds them together because he wants to do so, because it pleases him to do so. This phrase ‘wyll and pleasure’ was apparently a typical idiom in Colville’s day, as attested by John Knox’s 1556 printing, ‘Book of Common Order’, which refers to ‘the good will and pleasure of Almighty God.’” Boethius and the “Consolation of Philosophy” "The Roman statesman and philosopher Boethius, often styled "the last of the Romans", is regarded by tradition as a Christian martyr. He was left an orphan at an early age and was educated by the pious and noble-minded Symmachus, whose daughter, Rusticana, he married. As early as 507 he was known as a learned man, and as such was entrusted by King Theodoric with several important missions. He enjoyed the confidence of the king, and as a patrician of Rome was looked up to by the representatives of the Roman nobility. When, however, his enemies accused him of disloyalty to the Ostrogothic king, alleging that he plotted to restore ‘Roman liberty’, and added the accusation of ‘sacrilege’ (the practice of astrology), neither his noble birth nor his great popularity availed him. He was cast into prison, condemned unheard, and executed by order of Theodoric. During his imprisonment, he reflected on the instability of the favour of princes and the inconstancy of the devotion of his friends. These reflections suggested to him the theme of his best-known philosophical work, ‘De Consolatione Philosophiae’. "Written during his imprisonment, the ‘Consolations of Philosophy’ is justly called the most interesting example of prison literature the world has ever seen. It is a dialogue between Philosophy and Boethius, in which the Queen of Sciences strives to console the fallen statesman. The main argument of the discourse is the transitoriness and unreality of all earthly greatness and the superior desirability of the things of the mind. There are evident traces of the influence of the Neo-Platonists, especially of Proclus, and little, if anything, that can be said to reflect Christian influences. The recourse to Stoicism, especially to the doctrines of Seneca, was inevitable, considering the nature of the theme. “It does astonish the modern reader, although, strange to say, it did not surprise the medieval student, that Boethius, a Christian, and, as everyone in the Middle Ages believed, a Christian martyr, should have failed, in his moment of trial and mental stress to refer to the obvious Christian sources of consolation. Perhaps the medieval student of Boethius understood better than we do that a strictly formal dialogue on the consolation of philosophy should adhere rigorously to the realm of ‘natural truth’ and leave out of consideration the lesson to be derived from the moral maxims of Christianity – ‘supernatural truth’. "The work takes up many problems of metaphysics as well as of ethics. It treats of the Being and Nature of God, of providence and fate, of the origin of the universe, and of the freedom of the will. In medieval times, it became one of the most popular and influential philosophical books, a favorite study of statesmen, poets, and historians, as well as of philosophers and theologians. It was translated into Anglo-Saxon by King Alfred the Great and its influence may be traced in Beowulf, Chaucer, in Anglo-Norman and Provençal popular poetry, in the first specimens of Italian verse, and even in Dante’s ‘Divine Comedy.’”(Catholic Encyclopedia).

Blake and the Youthful Ancients, Being Portraits of William Blake and His Followers Engraved on Wood by Leonard Baskin and with A Biographical Note by Bennett Schiff by BASKIN, Leonard

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Title: Blake and the Youthful Ancients, Being Portraits of William Blake and His Followers Engraved on Wood by Leonard Baskin and with A Biographical Note by Bennett Schiff
Author: BASKIN, Leonard
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Condition: One of the rarest of Gehenna Press books. Occasional light foxing, otherwise a fine copy
Description: Northampton, MA: The Gehenna Press, 1956. Limited to 50 copies signed by Baskin and with an additional presentation inscription by him on the colophon page. As Baskin noted in the Gehenna Press Bibliography: "This was the last book which was made with my hands, that cessation a benefaction since I was a compositor and pressman of no distinction. This book is an homage to Blake and the dear youths who plied him with honour in his late age. My increased skill in wood engraving is here made manifest and a pattern for a kind of Gehenna Press book makes its beginning here; an introduction succeeded by a series of prints. The title-page reveals the novice's poking into historical sources & exemplars." The Gehenna Press, The Work of Fifty Years 7. One of the rarest of Gehenna Press books. Occasional light foxing, otherwise a fine copy. 8vo, illustrated with 18 wood engravings, original half-morocco & Cockerell boards by the Harcourt Bindery. One of the rarest of Gehenna Press books. Occasional light foxing, otherwise a fine copy.

[BLINDNESS / PHOTOGRAPHY]. Deputy M. [Georges] Scapini [SIGNED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH] by Abbott, Berenice

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Title: [BLINDNESS / PHOTOGRAPHY]. Deputy M. [Georges] Scapini [SIGNED ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPH]
Author: Abbott, Berenice
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Description: 1927. Very good. Original ferrotyped gelatin silver print (image size: 241 x 188 mm), signed in pencil and with the photographer's credit stamp on the reverse: "Photograph by Berenice Abbott / All Rights Reserved." Very slight curling, some very light superficial indentations visible only in raking light. Matte size: 500 x 400 mm. RARELY SEEN PARIS PORTRAIT BY BERENICE ABBOTT OF A BLIND FRENCH GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL, SEATED AT HIS DESK ON WHICH APPEARS A BOOK WITH RAISED CHARACTERS FOR BLIND READERS. THIS IS ONE OF TWO PORTRAITS OF GEORGES SCAPINI BY ABBOTT, BOTH TAKEN AT THE SAME TIME, BUT IN TERMS OF COMPOSITION AND TECHNIQUE, OURS IS THE SUPERIOR PHOTOGRAPH. HOWEVER, WE HAVE BEEN UNABLE TO FIND ANY REPRODUCTION OF IT IN STANDARD BERENICE ABBOTT REFERENCE SOURCES. THE AUTHENTICITY OF OUR PHOTOGRAPH IS CONFIRMED BY ABBOTT'S SIGNATURE ON THE VERSO. We have located a reproduction of the original un-cropped, un-retouched glass plate negative of this photograph (Larew fig. 6). Comparison between the unmodified negative and the present finished photograph shows how Abbott brilliantly repositioned the sitter so that the focus of the photograph is the monocle lens covering one of the sitter's blind eyes. Abbot reinforced the theme of blindness by completely blurring what was once a framed poster in the background. Consequently, the viewer is drawn into blurred world of the sitter, Georges Scapini. THE PHOTOGRAPHER: "Berenice Abbott (1898-1991) was a central figure in -- and important bridge between -- the photographic circles and cultural hubs of Paris and New York. In 1921, Abbott moved to Paris and became an assistant at the Man Ray Studio, where she would master photography. Her first solo photography show was at the Parisian gallery Le Sacre du Printemps (1926) and featured portraits of the avant-garde who resided in Paris at that time. After Atget's death, in 1927, she collaborated with Julien Levy, of New York's Julien Levy Gallery, to buy most of Atget's negatives and prints, bringing them back to New York upon her return in 1929." (SOURCE: MoMA Art and Artists, "Berenice Abbott, American, 1898-1991" online. Indeed, in 1970 MoMA hosted a career retrospective of Abbott's work). Besides her Paris portraits, Abbott is well known for her extraordinary photographic documentation of New York City, for which she has received international acclaim. THE SITTER: Blinded in World War I, Scapini (1893-1976) became a noted French political figure who was later accused of collaborating with the Nazis. He was tried in abstentia and convicted but was acquitted (SOURCE: Ron Kurtz, Berenice Abbott: Paris Portraits, 1925-1930, pp. 293 and 295). Scapini's ambivalence in the present photograph reminds us of Abbott's several now iconic portraits of James Joyce. REFERENCE: Elizabeth Larew, Not Just the Paris Portraits: Preserving Berenice Abbott's Glass Plate Negatives (Chicago: Columbia College, 2011, MA thesis). PROVENANCE: Addison Thompson Photographs and Artifacts -- Toby Kilpatrick, New York / Seattle artist and photography collector. CATALOGUER'S NOTE: We are grateful to Jon Evans and Rebekah Scoggins, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, for their reference to the Kurtz volume.

English Radical Journalist And Political Writer Benjamin Flower Writes To Cadell & Davies Publishing Company In Search Of Adam Smiths Wealth Of Nations by BENJAMIN FLOWER

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Title: English Radical Journalist And Political Writer Benjamin Flower Writes To Cadell & Davies Publishing Company In Search Of Adam Smiths Wealth Of Nations
Author: BENJAMIN FLOWER
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: BENJAMIN FLOWER (1755-1829). Flower was a journalist, publisher, and political commentator known for his controversial views. A supporter of republicanism abroad, but not at home, he opposed Britains role in the Napoleonic Wars and was jailed six months for criticism in his newspaper against a bishop. ALS. 2 pg. 8 x 10. October 11, 1800. Cambridge. An autographed letter signed by B Flower to Gentlm: I will thank you to find me Adam Smiths Wealth of Nations 3V. bds. Send them directly to Crosby & Littermans Hatoners Court indicated for me. If you do not favour me with any Adverts I will order your payment for the above, but I am sure it would be for your Advantage occasionally to advertise in my paper. I would take the whole out in brooks. You will charge me the lowest Trade Price. Included is an envelope indicating that this letter was sent to Cadell & Davies, a publishing company established in London in 1793 by Thomas Cadell, a successful 18th century book publisher, and his apprentice, William Davies. Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations in 1776, a magnum opus that pioneered the modern study of economics. In reflecting upon economics at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the book introduced concepts like division of labor, productivity, and free markets and discussions on how nations build wealth. In 1800, the conservative British newspaper The Anti-Jacobin Review issued a blistering editorial against the book, to which Flower, in asking for a copy of the book, was likely going to respond to in his paper, the Cambridge Intelligencer. Given that his paper relied on advertisements, Flower had no qualms about using this request to also solicit financial support from the publishers. A transcription is included and the letter and envelope are in fine condition with light spotting.

ECHO Mushroom Plant. Troy, N.Y. by [Manuscript – mushrooms; Anonymous]

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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink

Title: ECHO Mushroom Plant. Troy, N.Y.
Author: [Manuscript – mushrooms; Anonymous]
Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description: [Troy, N.Y., 1895. Octavo (19.5 x 12 cm.), 1-2, 59-134 pages. Index. References. Manuscript on printed blank account book. Thirty two pages of handwritten text and illustrations in pencil. An interesting mycological manuscript, in that it is focused on mushroom propagation and not identification. Descriptions of individual varieties are followed by growing specifications. Some of the descriptions are accompanied by pencil depiction of the mushrooms. Internally very good; some age-toning to endpapers. In textured brown calf, lined, and with a paper title label, hand lettered. Some wear to edges and rubbing to boards. Still near very good.

Eight White Nights by Aciman, André

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: Eight White Nights
Author: Aciman, André
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010. First Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Signed first edition of Eight White Nights by André Aciman.. Octavo, 360pp. Blue hardcover, title in gilt on spine. Stated "First edition, 2010" on copyright page with full number line. Solid text block. In the publisher's dust jacket, $26.00 retail price on front flap, a fine example. Signed by the author in blue marker on title page. André Aciman (b. 1951) is an Italian-American author and distinguished professor at the Graduate Center of City University of New York. His acclaimed debut novel, Call Me by Your Name, delves into themes of love, desire, and identity with a unique lyrical and introspective prose style. Aciman's other notable works, including Eight White Nights, Harvard Square, Enigma Variations, and Find Me, feature similar themes, securing his space as a prolific contemporary author.

The Wants Of Man; A Poem by Adams, John Quincy

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Title: The Wants Of Man; A Poem
Author: Adams, John Quincy
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Worcester, MA: Achille J. St. Onge, 1962. Limited Edition. Leather bound. Fine. Limited edition miniature of The Wants Of Man, a poem, by the sixth U.S. President, John Quincy Adams.. Miniature volume, 54pp, [1]. Green morocco, title in gilt on front panel with gilt illustration. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Book measures approximately 2.5 x 3 inches. Frontispiece portrait of Adams reproduced from an engraving by William Wellstood. Solid text block, very light shelf wear to covers. From a limited edition of 950 copies on 'Old Kentucky Linen' paper. A fine example.

[MEDICAL] [TYPESCRIPT] SEX INSTRUCTION MANUAL. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. TEXT AND DIAGRAMS

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Title: [MEDICAL] [TYPESCRIPT] SEX INSTRUCTION MANUAL. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. TEXT AND DIAGRAMS
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: NSFW. Well, that’s probably not true, but we rarely get the chance to say that, so we seized the moment. Eight pages of typescript accompanied by eight pages of numbered drawings of positions for intercourse (let’s try #8!), on very brittle foolscap. Headed: SOCIAL SCIENCE. EXCERPTS FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. While some of the forthright advice is of a practical nature, the text presents a novel approach to genetic engineering: “In sexual intercourse, pleasure of the fullest extent is necessary to bring the participants in to such relations that the offspring of the highest possible excellence may be brought forth by the mother”. Some separation at the folds. Undated; perhaps 1940’s.

Sea of Rust: A Novel by C. Robert Cargill

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Title: Sea of Rust: A Novel
Author: C. Robert Cargill
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780062405838
Condition: Fine
Description: Stated First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket, with only a faint spot of soiling to the top exterior text block. An outstanding copy of this novel by the author of "Dreams and Shadows", "Day Zero", and the Dr. Strange screenplay; uncommon in the first printing and in Fine condition. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

Baedeker's The Rhine From Rotterdam to Constance by Baedeker, Karl

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Title: Baedeker's The Rhine From Rotterdam to Constance
Author: Baedeker, Karl
Seller: Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Leipzig: Karl Baedeker, 1892. Soft cover. Near Fine. 6.25" x 4.5". 396pp. Sharp Twelfth Revised Edition. Bright flexible red covers with gilt titling, Titles stamped in gilt. Borders and decoration in blind. All edges marbled. 39 maps and 21 plans. Square, tight and clean throughout. Corner clipped from front end-paper. A touch of softness to spine ends and tips. Spine lightly toned. Very well-preserved. A very pretty collectable copy at a great price.

Shadow of the Wind by Zafón, Carlos Ruiz and Lucia Graves (Translator)

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Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA

Title: Shadow of the Wind
Author: Zafón, Carlos Ruiz and Lucia Graves (Translator)
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very good +
Description: New York: The Penguin Press, 2004. First U.S. edition. Hardcover. Very good +/Near Fine. 486 pp. Octavo. [24 cm]. 1/4 maroon paper over dark green boards. With gilt stamped author's initials on front board and gilt title stamped on spine. Marbled endpapers. Spine a bit rolled and spine ends lightly bumped. Touch of soiling to textblock edges. Zafón's frame narrative of an antiquarian bookseller's encounter with a rare, one-of-a-kind book from a secret library labyrinth sets the protagonist on a search to solve a decades old forgotten mystery. Stephen King noted in "Entertainment Weekly" that the book was a superb example of a contemporary gothic novel.

Lithograph Portrait by M. Gauci after P. W. Wilkins by Abel, Clarke

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: Lithograph Portrait by M. Gauci after P. W. Wilkins
Author: Abel, Clarke
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: 244x186 mm. Slight soiling in margins.

Snapshots: The Photography of Everyday Life, 1888 to the Present by Nickel, Douglas R.

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Title: Snapshots: The Photography of Everyday Life, 1888 to the Present
Author: Nickel, Douglas R.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780918471451
Description: San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998. Paperback. 94p., french-fold wraps, profusely illus., very good exhibition catalog.

Going Back to the River: poems by Hacker, Marilyn

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Title: Going Back to the River: poems
Author: Hacker, Marilyn
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780394582719
Description: New York: Random House, 1990. Hardcover. 95p., near-fine first edition stated with number line 24689753 as called for according to Random House and Zempel & Verler, quarter-cloth boards and bright unclipped dj. Lesbian poet's sixth book and winner of the Lambda Literary Award for 1991.

Darlinghissima: letters to a friend by Flanner, Janet, edited and with commentary by Natalia Danesi Murray

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Title: Darlinghissima: letters to a friend
Author: Flanner, Janet, edited and with commentary by Natalia Danesi Murray
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780394529547
Description: New York: Random House, 1985. Hardcover. xix, 507p., editor's note, introduction, index, photos, very good first edition stated number line ends in 2 as called for by Verkler and Zempel, in cloth boards and unclipped dj.

A COAST OF TREES: Poems by AMMONS, A.R.

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Title: A COAST OF TREES: Poems
Author: AMMONS, A.R.
Seller: Brian Cassidy Bookseller at Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9780393000511
Condition: Near fine.
Description: New York: Norton, 1981. First Edition. Near fine.. Clean proof copy of this slim collection from the reowned, award-winning poet. Wraps. 8vo. Perfect-bound wraps. Near fine. UNCORRECTED PROOF (stated). Hint of thumbsoil to wraps, but overall clean. 52pp.

A Parliamentary Dictionary by ABRAHAM, L.A. and S.C. Hawtrey

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Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs

Title: A Parliamentary Dictionary
Author: ABRAHAM, L.A. and S.C. Hawtrey
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Description: London, Butterworths, 1964., 1964. Second edition (so stated). 8vo. 1 page preface by both authors. Dust jacket (unclipped). Very good. 241 pages. No signatures or bookplates.. 2nd Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good.

Air Disasters by Stewart, Stanley

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Title: Air Disasters
Author: Stewart, Stanley
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Barnes & Noble, 1994. Fine. Stewart, Stanley. Air Disasters. NY: Barnes & Noble, 1994. 255pp. Indexed. Illustrated. Bibliography. 4to. Pictorial hardcover. Book condition: Near fine.. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good with bumped spine ends..

Romeo And/Or Juliet: A Chooseable-path Adventure by North, Ryan

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Title: Romeo And/Or Juliet: A Chooseable-path Adventure
Author: North, Ryan
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Riverhead, 2016. Very Good. North, Ryan. Romeo And/Or Juliet: A Chooseable-path Adventure. NY: Riverhead, 2016. 476pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbed edges..

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