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Les Principes de la Philosophie. Escrits en Latin, par René Descartes. Et traduits en François par un de ses Amis. Revues, & corrigez en cette derniere Edition by DESCARTES, René [VIEUSSENS, Raymond]

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Title: Les Principes de la Philosophie. Escrits en Latin, par René Descartes. Et traduits en François par un de ses Amis. Revues, & corrigez en cette derniere Edition
Author: DESCARTES, René [VIEUSSENS, Raymond]
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Paris: Bobin & Le Gras, 1668. Hardcover. Very Good. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. (55), 477 pp, (2). With 22 full-page woodcuts (1 folding) and 70 woodcut illustrations in text. Ink ownership inscription of Raymond Vieussens to front pastedown & shelf mark on front free endpaper. Bound in contemporary French calf, spine in six compartments with gilt florets and title; some wear to boards but generally an excellent copy, clean and fresh. Scarce edition of Descartes' magnum opus, bearing the manuscript ex-libris of Raymond Vieussens (1635-1715), Royal Physician to Louis XIV and an important anatomist in his own right. Drawing directly on the dualistic theories of Descartes, Vieussens became fascinated by the actions of the heart and of the brain in particular. "In his speculations on physiology, Vieussens drew inspiration from both the mechanistic philosophy of Descartes and the iatrochemical ideas of F. de la Boë (Sylvius). He believed that he had demonstrated the existence of the nervous fluid." (DSB) "Without Descartes, the seventeenth-century mechanization of physiological conceptions would have been inconceivable," notes the DSB, ".No other great philosopher, except perhaps Aristotle, can have spent so much time in expermintal observation. According to Baillet, over several years he studied anatomy, dissected and vivisected embryos of birds and cattle, and went on to study chemistry. His correspondence from the Netherlands described dissections of dogs, cats, rabbits, cod, and mackerel; eyes, livers, and hearts obtained from an abattoir.". Descartes' magnum opus, his Principia Philosophiae, presented to the world the purest expression of his mechanist vision of the universe, seized upon eagerly by later anatomists such as Thomas Willis, Nicolas Steno, and, as is evident from the present copy, Raymond Vieussens. Intended to replace the Aristotelian texts used in universities with a curriculum based on physical and immutable laws of nature, Descartes' Principles, especially in its French editions, comes replete with numerous plates of his famous swirling vortices as well as discussions of the Copernican system. Curiously, as C. F. Fowler has noted, a direct reference to the Principia is lacking from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum of 1664 which otherwise banned most of Descartes' works - although a blanket clause is also given, "and the philosophical works of same author". Evidently the decree of the Catholic Church disuaded neither French publishers from printing the work nor the Royal Physician from purchasing it! In particular, Veussens seems to have been inspired by the Cartesian concept of cerebral localization; but while Descartes considered the pineal body to be the seat of animal spirits and the soul, Veussens regarded the corpora striata as the seat of the imagination. "Inspired by both Descartes's mechanistic and the iatrochemical philosophies, Vieussens studied the white matter of the brain by tracing the path of its fibers" (Schlager & Lauer), eventually providing us with an early description of the brain's centrum semiovale, sometimes referred to as Vieussens' centrum. Following his well-received Neurographica Universalis (1685), the Royal Physician issued his Traité nouveau des Liqeurs de Corps Humain (1705) in which he describes the three Cartesian elements in detail and their functions within the body. * Guilbert, "Les Principes" (13); cf also Schlager & Lauer (eds), Science and Its Times 3 (Gale, 2001), p. 154; Fowler, Descartes on the human soul: philosophy and the demands of Christian doctrine (Kluwer, 1999), pp 8-10. For the impact of Descartes' philosophy see PMM 129.

Go Tell It on the Mountain by Baldwin, James

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Title: Go Tell It on the Mountain
Author: Baldwin, James
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1953. Advance Reading Copy. Advance reading copy, issued to reviewers before publication of the first edition, with alternate artwork not used in the first edition. [x], 303, [1] pp. Perfectbound in publisher's illustrated wraps. Very Good, dampstain to front wrap; spine sunned, creased, and rubbed along edges. Slight curling to front wrap, wear at corners. Small marginal tidemark to upper margins of prelims. A rare prepublication copy of the celebrated African American author's first book.

Poster for Sam and Dave at La Chic Club in Fort Worth, 1973 by [Concert Posters – R&B – Texas] La Chic Club

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Title: Poster for Sam and Dave at La Chic Club in Fort Worth, 1973
Author: [Concert Posters – R&B – Texas] La Chic Club
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Some creasing and wear, chip at top left corner; excellent.
Description: Fort Worth, Texas, 1973. 18 x 23 ½ inch poster on heavy cardstock. Some creasing and wear, chip at top left corner; excellent.. A poster advertising a 1973 concert and dance with celebrated R&B act and Rock & Roll Hall of Famers Sam and Dave (Sam Moore and Dave Prater) at La Chic Club in Fort Worth, Texas. The duo earned the nickname “Double Dynamite”, as they are called on the poster, from their legendary live performances.

QUENTIN CRISP (1978-ca. 1990s) Photo archive by Np

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Title: QUENTIN CRISP (1978-ca. 1990s) Photo archive
Author: Np
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Np. No binding. Fine. Set of 5 vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm) black-and-white photos, overall fine. Quentin Crisp (born Denis Charles Pratt, 1908-1999) was an English raconteur, whose work in the public eye included a memoir of her life and various media appearances. Before becoming well known, she was an artist's model, hence the title of Crisp's most famous work, The Naked Civil Servant. She afterwards became a gay icon due to her flamboyant personality, fashion sense and wit. As Crisp became a kind of icon, she devoted much of her later years to various kinds of stage appearances. - Portrait of Crisp as she appears in An Evening with Quentin Crisp in New York, 1978, with printed text on verso; - A borderless portrait; - Crisp on a sofa with cat as she prepares the role of Benvolio in a 1990 film-in-concert adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, with text on verso; - Portrait of Crisp standing outside, probably in New York City, with sticker on back for his 1996 book Resident Alien. - Photo of Crisp with John Hurt, who portrayed Crisp in a film adaptation of Crisp's The Naked Civil Servant. Also included is a program for Crisp's An Evening with Quentin Crisp given in London at the Ambassador Theatre.

Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects by STERNFELD, Joel (photographer); Andy GRUNDBERG (author); Anne TUCKER (contributor); Katy SIEGEL (contributor)

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Title: Joel Sternfeld: American Prospects
Author: STERNFELD, Joel (photographer); Andy GRUNDBERG (author); Anne TUCKER (contributor); Katy SIEGEL (contributor)
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9781891024771
Condition: A near-fine copy
Description: New York: Distributed Art Publishers, 2004. First edition thus. A near-fine copy. 11.75 x 14.5 inches. 140 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. With a warm inscription from the photographer to a curator. With essays by Kerry Brougher, Andy Grundberg and Anne W. Tucker. "Originally published in 1987, Joel Sternfeld's now-classic view of America is here remastered, redesigned and reprinted at a larger, brighter, truer scale. Finally, photography and offset printing techniques have caught up with Sternfeld's eye, and this new edition of American Prospects succeeds in presenting Sternfeld's most seminal work as it has always meant to be shown. A specially-commissioned essay by Kerry Brougher, Chief Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, considers the historical context in which Sternfeld was working and the pivotal role that American Prospects has played in the course of contemporary filmmaking and art photography. In American Prospects, a fireman shops for a pumpkin while a house burns in the background; a group of motorcyclists stop at the side of the road to take in a stunning, placid view of Bear Lake, Utah; the high-tech world headquarters of the Manville Corporation sits in picturesque Colorado, obscured by a defiant boulder; a lone basketball net stands in the desert near Lake Powell in Arizona; and a cookie-cutter suburban housing settlement rests squarely amongst rolling hills in Pendleton, Oregon. Sternfeld's photographic tour of America is a search for the truth of a country not just as it exists in a particular era but as it is in its ever-evolving essence. It is a sad poem, but also a funny and generous one, recognizing endurance, poignant beauty, and determination within its sometimes tense, often ironic juxtapositions of man and nature, technology and ruin" (the publisher).

Vorhut aus dem Hinterland by (KABINETT FUR AKTUELLE KUNST BREMERHAVEN)

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Title: Vorhut aus dem Hinterland
Author: (KABINETT FUR AKTUELLE KUNST BREMERHAVEN)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: Illus. throughout. 104 pp. 4to, pictorial softcover, title on spine. Bremen: Neuen Museum Weserburg Bremen, 1992. An invaluable and rare exhibition catalogue on Jürgen Wesseler’s intrepid Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst Bremerhaven, a non-commercial gallery in northern Germany that was active from 1967 to the early 2000s. There are installation photographs for many of its most famous exhibitions and interviews with artists who had exhibited there, including Lawrence Weiner, Franz Erhard Walther, and Andreas Slominski. With essays by Claudia Meier (“Zwischen Kunst und Publikum”) and Hanne Zech (“Vorhut aus dem Hinterland”). A fine copy.

[MILITARY] ANTIBALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE IN THE 1980’s by Ian Bellany; Coit D. Blacker

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Title: [MILITARY] ANTIBALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENCE IN THE 1980’s
Author: Ian Bellany; Coit D. Blacker
Seller: Black Swan Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine binding
Description: Totowa, NJ: Frank Cass, 1983. Hard Cover. Near Fine binding/Near Fine dust jacket. Octavo; in publisher’s red cloth boards, with dustjacket; there are no ownership marks of any kind in the book.~~Uncommon title. Near Fine binding / Near Fine dust jacket.

The Voice of America on Kishineff by Adler, Cyrus (ed.)

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Title: The Voice of America on Kishineff
Author: Adler, Cyrus (ed.)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: fair
Description: Philadelphia: The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1904. First edition. Hardcover. fair. Octavo. XXVI, 491, [1], ix. Original cloth with blind-stamped printer's device on front board, and red lettering on front cover and spine. Printer's device on title-page. A sample of American reactions to the Kishinev pogrom of 1903, where Jews were attacked and dozens killed by a Christian mob, fueled by anti-Semitic reports of the murder of a Christian child, while Czarist officials either did nothing or possibly encouraged the violence. This book also offers a fascinating window on the position of Jews in the United States, showing that Jews did advocate effectively on behalf Russian Jewry, many of whom were now emigrating to the United States in response to pogroms such as Kishinev. Some age wear to binding with spine slightly sunned. Also shows shelf wear. Interior binding starting. Endpapers aged toned. Overall in fair to good condition. Cyrus Adler was a leading figure in the 19th and early 20th century American Jewish community as well as an academic scholar. He served as president of Dropsie College in Philadelphia.

THEOLOGIA GERMANICA by Winkworth, Susanna

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Title: THEOLOGIA GERMANICA
Author: Winkworth, Susanna
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Stewart & Watkins, 1966. New Edition. Softcover. Octavo. 134 pages. In Very Good minus condition. Orange spine with burgundy lettering. Covers have mild edgewear and shelfwear, faint pencil writing on rear cover, and price is clipped. Textblock has gray marks along head and fore edges. 1368295. FP New Rockville Stock.

THE ANGEL ON THE ROOF: The Stories of Russell Banks by Banks, Russell

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Title: THE ANGEL ON THE ROOF: The Stories of Russell Banks
Author: Banks, Russell
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ISBN: 9780060173968
Condition: Fine in about fine jacket.
Description: (New York): HarperCollins, 2000. First Edition. Fine in about fine jacket.. Inscribed first edition of this collection of stories by the O. Henry and Best American Short Story Awards winner. 9.25'' x 6.25''. Original black boards in unclipped ($27.50) pictorial dust jacket. Fore-edge machine deckle. 506 pages. Inscribed by Banks on title page. Hint of a crease to jacket rear panel. Interior bright, crisp, and clean throughout.

Presence by WILLIAMSON, Alan

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Title: Presence
Author: WILLIAMSON, Alan
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780394712598
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1983. First edition. Softcover. A review copy with publisher letter laid in. A collection of poems. A tight very near fine copy in wrappers.

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