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Happo dano ko [trans.: Study of Drainage from Western Medicine]

Happo dano ko [trans.: Study of Drainage from Western Medicine] by TAKEBE, Yu

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Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
Title
Happo dano ko [trans.: Study of Drainage from Western Medicine]
Author
TAKEBE, Yu
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
Seven full-page woodcuts & a few smaller text illus. 49 folding leaves. 8vo, orig. wrappers, orig. title label on upper cover with title in manuscript, modern stitching. Wakayama: Kasedaya Hiemon et al., 1818. First edition of Takebe’s translation and commentary of Lorenz Heister’s writings on infections and their treatment. Heister (1683-1758), wrote one of the best and most complete works on surgery of the 18th century. Translated into Japanese, it was enormously successful, introducing Western methods to many Japanese surgeons. Takebe (1782-1842), a samurai, has included here all of Heister’s writings on infections and has provided a number of his own cases histories. A number of pharmaceutical recipes are described including aloe (the plant is illustrated on two pages). Methods of lancing are illustrated along with a number of Western surgical instruments. Very nice copy.
To the Editors of The Emancipator, Boston

To the Editors of The Emancipator, Boston by Smith, Gerrit

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
To the Editors of The Emancipator, Boston
Author
Smith, Gerrit
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description
[Peterboro, NY]: [N.P.], 1847. First edition. Broadside sheet measuring 12 x 7.75 inches and printed recto and verso. Later ink docketing to upper left corner. Faint toning along horizontal foldlines to verso (not apparent on recto) and minor chips to upper margin. A just about Fine copy of a scarce tract calling out the hypocrisy of contemporary media in its representation of the equality cause. OCLC reports only 6 surviving copies in institutions, with this the only example in trade. A philanthropist, reformer, and cousin of the famed activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Gerrit Smith is best known for his anti-racist and abolitionist work. A close associate of William Lloyd Garrison and a financial backer of John Brown, he wrote numerous broadsides calling to the end of slavery, the purchase of land tracts to be provided to freed people, and the expansion of Black Americans' rights. The present broadside is an example of such work, calling out the hypocrisy of the publication The Emancipator in using an outdated piece of his writing to support the current Liberty Party as well as outlining the Liberty Party's past mission and current failings. At his opening, Smith points to a recent issue of The Emancipator, wherein is printed "an extract of a letter, which I wrote four years ago...however proper that argument may have been, as applied to the Liberty Party four years ago, is it proper, as applied to it now? -- and are you serving the cause of truth, in applying it to it now?" Clearly Smith has seen the party devolve from its original mission of operating as a temporary party "made up of persons who have agreed to stand out from their old parties, and to stand together in a new one until, and only until, those old parties shall consent to go for the abolition of slavery." The Liberty Party was a means of pressuring the existent parties to add a crucial component to their platforms: one emphasizing the dignity and rights to freedom of Black Americans. Notably, Smith has seen members of the Liberty Party speak but not act on their commitments -- a deep hypocrisy which he calls out in print in the hopes of adjusting the party's future. "For obvious reasons, it has been the policy of the Liberty party newspapers to print but little of what I have written the last few months," and so he has taken to the broadside for recourse. Indeed, only two months earlier Smith had engaged in another public act of defiance against the Party's complacency and performativism: he, Frederick Douglass, and William Goodell organized a convention in Macedon, New York to announce the development of a rival party, the Liberty League. Among the seventy attendees were Lydia Maria Child and Lucretia Mott. "Each woman received a vote in the early ballotting. Women present were permitted to vote on nominations, a first in American politics; the votes for Child and Mott marked the first time in history that women received votes for president of the United States at a bona fide political convention" (Freethought Trail).
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Elegy For My Father, Robert Strand, 1908-1968 by STRAND, Mark

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Title
Elegy For My Father, Robert Strand, 1908-1968
Author
STRAND, Mark
Seller
James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition
A very fine copy
Description
(Iowa City: Windhover Press, 1973). First edition. One of 150 copies printed on handmade Japanese Shogun paper (the entire edition). Although not called for this copy is signed by Strand. A very fine copy. Square small 4to, illustrated with photo silkscreens by Gretchen Esping, original black wrappers. A very fine copy.
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One Arm and Other Stories by Williams, Tennessee

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books
Title
One Arm and Other Stories
Author
Williams, Tennessee
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: New Directions, 1948. First edition, usual second state with cancel title page. Cloth backed boards, a very good copy in lightly worn slipcase. Inscribed by Williams to William Targ, later one of his publishers. Ownership signature of Benjamin Crowell, dated 1949. Crandell A8.1.a2.
Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar; Translated by W.H.G. Kingston, With Numerous Illustrations

Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar; Translated by W.H.G. Kingston, With Numerous Illustrations by Verne, Jules

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Title
Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar; Translated by W.H.G. Kingston, With Numerous Illustrations
Author
Verne, Jules
Seller
The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1877. First English Edition. Full leather. Very good. The first English edition of Michael Strogoff, The Courier of the Czar by Jules Verne.. Octavo, ix, [3], 377pp, [3]. Finely bound in three-quarter red morocco, pebbled cloth-covered boards. Five raised bands, title in gilt on spine with embellished compartments. Top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, light wear to corners, some soiling to cover, faint foxing to endpapers and fore edge. Lacking publisher's catalogue at rear. Previous ownership bookplate to front flyleaf. Complete with 89 full page plates, including frontispiece. Features two fold-out map of the title character's delivery route through Russia. (Myers 40) (Taves and Michaluk V015) This copy was translated by Agnes Kinloch Kingston, but published under her husband's name, W. H. G. Kingston. The first edition was originally published one year earlier (1876) in French, by Pierre-Jules Hetzel of Paris.
Village management book

Village management book

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Village management book
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Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
[Saigon, 1970. 4to, pp. 34; printed from typescript; full-page generic plan of a village; pro-forma tables in the text; original cream and yellow printed wrappers stapled at the top corner, manuscript "LCDR Pozzi" at top right-hand corner of upper cover, corners dog-eared. A tool created by the Vietnam government to assist the village governments to complete its mission of identifying problems, coordinating plans, establishing priorities, and allocating resources and delegating work responsibility. Not in OCLC.
Indic manuscripts and Chinese blockprints (non-chinese texts) of the Oriental collection of the Australian National University Library, Canberra

Indic manuscripts and Chinese blockprints (non-chinese texts) of the Oriental collection of the Australian National University Library, Canberra by Yuyama, Akira

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Indic manuscripts and Chinese blockprints (non-chinese texts) of the Oriental collection of the Australian National University Library, Canberra
Author
Yuyama, Akira
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
Canberra: Australian National University, 1967. 10 x 8 in., pp. viii, 124, [4]; printed paper wrappers backed in cloth; light toning and wear to upper wrapper, corner bumed, very good, with 3-page corrections laid in.
My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan (Signed)

My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan (Signed) by Reagan, Nancy; Noval, William

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My Turn: The Memoirs of Nancy Reagan (Signed)
Author
Reagan, Nancy; Noval, William
Seller
Brenner's Collectable Books (United States)
ISBN
9780394563688
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Random House, 1989. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo., 384pp. Beautiful First Edition, Second Printing with number sequence to "2" but without the "First Edition" label. Square, tight and clean throughout with little or no wear save a gentle bump to the heel Very attractive unclipped, though unpriced, dust-jacket ($45.00 on a price sticker from the Reagan Presidential Library on the rear board), is fresh and bright with no tears, creases or chipping. Inscribed and signed by the former actress and First Lady on the front end-paper, "Best wishes, Nancy Reagan". Purchased in-person at the Reagan Presidential Library. A sharp collectable copy.
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A BOOK OF DISCOVERIES by Masefield, John

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Title
A BOOK OF DISCOVERIES
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Masefield, John
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
London: Wells, Gardner Darton & Co., (1910). An octavo, 354 pp., plus 10pp. of publisher's ads. Bound in very pale yellow cloth with pictorial covers and spine printed in green and brown. Illustrated by Godon Browne, this is a perfect copy of a delightful book..retaining the pictorial slipcase which repeats the cover illustration on both front and back panels. The slipcase exhibits some wear, particularly at the extremities and along the spine..but is complete and quite rare in any condition. Laid-in is a folded sheet advertising Darton's Fine Art Series of books, as well as other titles with three color illustrations. An exceptional copy of this classic British book.
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Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Divison

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Vision of a Collector: The Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection in the Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Divison
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Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Washington: Library of Congress, 1991 First edition. Cloth. Quarto. Fine.
My Memory Book

My Memory Book by HILL, Mabel Betsy

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My Memory Book
Author
HILL, Mabel Betsy
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Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description
New York City: C.R. Gibson & Company, 1921. Mabel Betsy HILL. [ALBUM] [WOMAN AUTHOR and ILLUSTRATOR]. Unused Album. 12mo oblong (7 13/16" x 9 7/16"); [70]pp; textured cloth over board, gilt stamped lettering and vignette of a diploma, mortar board and book on front; light gray endpapers; bookseller's ticket on front pastedown "Dickson's Book Store, New Britain, Conn."; pictorial title page; vignette on copyright page; line drawings and decorations on every page; light scratch to front board; near fine. A lovely turn of the 20th century woman's unused album in which to record memories of school. Small charming illustrations are on each page.
The Twig Cook Book

The Twig Cook Book by The Twigs, a group of organizations working for the benefit of The Ohio Valley General Hospital

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Title
The Twig Cook Book
Author
The Twigs, a group of organizations working for the benefit of The Ohio Valley General Hospital
Seller
Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Wheeling, West Virginia: The Ohio Valley General Hospital, 1921?. Hardcover. Very Good. Orange oilcloth boards with blue lettering & decoration to front cover, 9.25: x 6", ads as front & end matter, thumb-indexed, contributors' names by each recipe, 196 pp. Rear cover has paper pieces stuck to it from the oilcloth, else a nice copy. Gift inscription from what appears to be 1921 on front endpaper. Could be 1911, but that seems too early for the woman's outfit in the Holeproof Hosiery ad.
Before the Revolution: St. Petersburg in Photographs, 1890-1914

Before the Revolution: St. Petersburg in Photographs, 1890-1914 by Iroshnikov, Mikhail P.; Shelayev, Yury B.; Protsai, Liudmila A.; Billington, James H.; Likhachov, Dmitry S

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Title
Before the Revolution: St. Petersburg in Photographs, 1890-1914
Author
Iroshnikov, Mikhail P.; Shelayev, Yury B.; Protsai, Liudmila A.; Billington, James H.; Likhachov, Dmitry S
Seller
Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780810938137
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1991. Large Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 10x1x12. Vintage Russian postcard laid in. Jacket spine base rubbed. 1991 Large Hardcover. 310 pp. Includes 307 duotone illustrations. Four distinguished Soviet historians evoke the daily life of St. Petersburg just at the point--1890 to 1914--when it was witnessing the last moments of its imperial incarnation and, simultaneously, the first shocks of social and technological change.
Peasant Art of Europe and Asia

Peasant Art of Europe and Asia by BOSSERT, Helmut T.

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Title
Peasant Art of Europe and Asia
Author
BOSSERT, Helmut T.
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Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN
9780803858183
Condition
A near-fine copy; dust jacket with a few small nicks
Description
New York: Hastings House, 1977. A near-fine copy; dust jacket with a few small nicks. 13.5 x 10 inches. 45 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket; carboard slipcase. First edition.
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Design of Concrete Pavements for Airports

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Title
Design of Concrete Pavements for Airports
Seller
Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Wire Reinforcement Institute, 1960. Very Good. Design of Concrete Pavements for Airports. Washington, D.C.: Wire Reinforcement Institute, 1960. 96pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Green cloth with gilt lettering. Book condition: Very good with light soiling and bumping. Previous owner's name on rear endsheet..

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