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The Illustrated Man by Bradbury, Ray

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Title: The Illustrated Man
Author: Bradbury, Ray
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: About Fine
Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, 1951. First Edition. About Fine/About Fine. First edition, first printing with publisher's original packing slip laid in. Bound in publisher's original tan cloth with spine lettered in blackish-brown. Faint stain to base of spine and extending onto boards and offsetting to front endsheet from formerly laid in ephemera, else fine, in a sharp and bright example of the dust jacket, unclipped, with trivial spine wear and color touch-ups to spine ends. A tough title to find approaching anywhere near this condition.

Treaty Between Her Majesty and the Oriental Republick of the Uruguay, for the Abolition of the Traffick in Slaves, Signed at Monte-Video, July 13, 1839 by [Uruguay]. [Slave Trade]

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Title: Treaty Between Her Majesty and the Oriental Republick of the Uruguay, for the Abolition of the Traffick in Slaves, Signed at Monte-Video, July 13, 1839
Author: [Uruguay]. [Slave Trade]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine.
Description: London: T.R. Harrison, 1842. Near fine.. 38pp. stitched. Very minor bumps to top edge of first leaf, light dust-soiling to outer leaves. A very rare treaty between Queen Victoria’s Britain and the “Oriental Republick of the Uruguay,” printed in both English and Spanish in two parallel columns throughout. According to the text, the parties were “mutually animated by a sincere desire to co-operate for the utter extinction of the barbarous Traffick in Slaves...for the special purpose of immediately attaining this object, so far as relates to the total and final abolition of the Slave Trade of the Oriental Republick of the Uruguay.” The treaty is comprised of fourteen original articles, plus three annexes totaling forty-six additional articles, and four additional articles at the end, covering a host of issues pertaining to the suppression of the slave trade. These issues included enforcement procedures, the establishment of “Mixed Courts of Justice,” “Regulations in respect to treatments of liberated negroes,” and much more. With regard to slaves found on international vessels, the two nations hoped for “permanent good treatment, and a full and complete emancipation, according to the humane intentions of the Parties of the Treaty.” The present treaty was part of a larger effort by the British Crown to put an end to the transatlantic slave trade in the first half of the 19th century; at this same time, Britain had reached terms on a similar treaty with the Republic of Texas and other nations. The document is signed at the end in type by J.H. Mandeville and Jose Ellauri, representatives of the two countries, who originally signed the treaty at Montevideo on July 13, 1839; the present work was “Presented to both Houses of Parliament, by Command of Her Majesty” in 1842, likely due to bureaucratic delays. Uruguay would have been an important ally for Great Britain in monitoring the seas against the transatlantic slave trade given its position opposite the South Atlantic Ocean from West Africa. OCLC records just a single physical copy of this treaty, at the University of Arizona. Cundall 2854.

An essay on the disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal. by MEASE, James (preface by LETTSON, J[ohn] C[oakley])

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Title: An essay on the disease produced by the bite of a mad dog, or other rabid animal.
Author: MEASE, James (preface by LETTSON, J[ohn] C[oakley])
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: C. Dilly, 1793. SECOND EDITION. Half calf and marbled boards; spine rubbed and both inner hinges cracked but otherwise in very good condition. Second edition, though much enlarged from a first printing as a dissertation the prior year in Philadelphia. By the late eighteenth century, doctors and scientists were still trying to pinpoint the exact cause of rabies, which had been known since around 2000 BC. Ancient Mesopotamian laws dictated that the owner of a dog showing symptoms of rabies should take preventive measures against bites. If another person were bitten by a rabid dog and later died, the owner was heavily fined. Some physicians believed that rabies developed spontaneously due to exposure to extreme heat or a lack of water. Others asserted more outlandish theories—perhaps rabies was caused by a worm that could be found under the tongue of the inflicted. The Roman physician Celsus correctly suggested that rabies was transmitted by the saliva of the biting animal. He incorrectly suggested a cure for rabies by holding the victim under water. Those that didn’t drown died of rabies. Other cures for rabies included burning the wounds with a hot poker and laying hair of the rabid dog on the wound or ingesting by the patient. Madstones, or calcified hairballs found in the stomachs of cows, goats and deer were thought to have curative powers by drawing the madness out of the bite wound. Abraham Lincoln is reported to have transported his son, Robert, from Springfield, Illinois to Terre Haute, Indiana for madstone treatment in 1849 after being bitten by a rabid dog. Robert survived. It was not uncommon for a person bitten by a dog merely suspected of being rabid to commit suicide or to be killed by others. Mease surveys these conjectures but confirmed that the disease is caused by contact with the saliva of a rabid dog. In his preface, Mease says that he decided to write this book to combat the proliferation of quack rabies remedies. This book showcases the early development of the study and treatment of rabies. Despite the robust international discourse about the disease, the rabies vaccine would not be developed until 1885. This edition includes a preface and appendix added by Lettsom (1744-1815), English physician and the founder of the Medical Society of London. The appendix includes lectures, studies, and correspondence on rabies by Lettsom and other English physicians. In his preface to this edition, Lettsom says, “The great importance of the subject of discussion, and the ingenious and practical manner in which the author has elucidated it, induce me to think it worthy of republication.” Mease (1771-1846) was an American doctor and scientist. While he published several books on medicine, geography, and agriculture throughout his life, he is best-known today as the inventor of tomato-based ketchup. Eimas, Heirs of Hippocrates, 1263 (for the dissertation).

There Was Once a City by Turton, Godfrey E.

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Title: There Was Once a City
Author: Turton, Godfrey E.
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Fine dj
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Near Fine in Fine dj. 1927. 1st [U.S.] Edition. Hardcover. [a very nice copy, the book blemished only by a couple of small brown spots on the fore-edge, otherwise clean and tight, with an old bookseller's price label on rear pastedown; the jacket is fresh and unmarked, with only the slightest bumping at the base of the spine]. A sort of modern variation on the old Breton legend (with the action relocated from Brittany to "Central Europe") about the city of Ys ("Le roi d'Ys"), whose "young and beautiful and witchlike" Queen, in league with the devil (in human form), ultimately provokes the populace into rebellion, and consigns the city itself to a watery doom. .

Wide is the Gate by Thompson, Loyd

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Title: Wide is the Gate
Author: Thompson, Loyd
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: The Macaulay Company. Very Good. (c.1937). First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [moderate shelfwear, spine slightly turned, foxing/spotting to top edge of text block, vintage bookplate (featuring the Three Wise Men) on front pastedown]. "The exciting story of a modern quack, strutting his lecherous way from college and battlefield to flashy, pseudo-scientific hospital and governor's mansion. Some of his fellow actors are honorable physicians; others are like himself, unethical, conscienceless. Of the many women that come with [his] reach, some are Juliets and some, Cleopatras. His quackery began in the era when occult mysticism reaped a harvest, and rises to its peak in the era of radio." A contemporary reviewer observed that the author "has been utterly remorseless in the treatment of his conscienceless scalliwag." .

The Cinema of Adventure, Romance & Terror; from the archives of American Cinematographer by Turner, George E., ed.

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Title: The Cinema of Adventure, Romance & Terror; from the archives of American Cinematographer
Author: Turner, George E., ed.
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Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dj
Description: Hollywood: The ASC Press. 1989. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine in Near Fine dj. [essentially an as-new book, downgraded from "Fine" only due to the presence of a small array of tiny brown spots on the top edge; the jacket is very lightly surface- and edge-worn, and has a soft vertical crease an a bit of light wrinkling at the lower left corner of the front panel]. (B&W photographs) A themed collection of previously-published "historical" articles from back issues of American Cinematographer magazine. ; These are terrific articles -- detailed, behind-the-scenes production histories of about two dozen films that fall under that rather broadly-defined "adventure/romance/terror" rubric. Given the orientation of the magazine in which these originally appeared, it's not surprising that the articles occasionally skew a little to the "tech" side -- but the individual writers never lose sight of the history-lines, nor do they muddy up their scholarly work with more than basic critical evaluation of the film in question. (Editor Turner seems to have written at least half these pieces, with other contributors being Rudy Behlmer, Scott MacQueen, Paul Mandell, George J. Mitchell, and Michael H. Price.) The movies thus chonicled include: THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME (1923); THE BAT (multiple versions); WINGS; ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT; DRACULA; FRANKENSTEIN; CREATION (unproduced Willis O'Brien project); WHITE ZOMBIE; THE BLACK CAT; CRIME WITHOUT PASSION; FLASH GORDON; CAT PEOPLE; LAURA; OUT OF THE PAST; NIGHT OF THE HUNTER. ****NOTE that additional postage charges will be assessed for international shipping of this heavy book; if this concerns you, please contact us for a shipping quote before placing your order.**** .

Flashman. From the Flashman Papers 1839 - 1842 by Fraser, George Macdonald

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Title: Flashman. From the Flashman Papers 1839 - 1842
Author: Fraser, George Macdonald
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York & Cleveland: The World Publishing Company, 1969. First Edition. Fine/About Fine. octavo, 256 pages; pictorial dust jacket, price-clipped. Author's first book, First American edition and first World printing, stated.

Nineveh and Babylon: A Narrative of a Second Expedition to Assyria During the Years 1849, 1850, & 1851 by Layard, Austen Henry

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Title: Nineveh and Babylon: A Narrative of a Second Expedition to Assyria During the Years 1849, 1850, & 1851
Author: Layard, Austen Henry
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: London: John Murray, 1867. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Abridged by the author from his larger work, with numerous woodcuts." Frontispiece woodcut of palace at Kouyunjik, restored. Bound in brown calf with panelled spine and edges of covers stamped in gilt, covers double-ruled in gilt, marbled endpapers and page edges. Fascinating and beautiful illustrations throughout, and sharp fold-out map. Former owner's presentation inscribed on flyleaf and bookplate on front pastedown endpaper. Light wear at extremities, and faint foxing to endpapers only, otherwise fine. 146 illustrations including frontispiece. 5 x 7 1/4 inches. 413 pages.

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