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A Series of Practical Instructions by CLARK, John

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Seller: Ursus Books

Title: A Series of Practical Instructions
Author: CLARK, John
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1827. CLARK, John. A Series of Practical Instructions in Landscape Painting in water colours: containing directions for sketching from nature, and the application of perspective, progressive lessons in drawing from the tinted sketch to the finished subject, and examples of the introduction of figures, architectural subjects, particular effects, &c. as connected with landscape scenery. In 4 parts. [6], 24; [4], 35; [4], 26; [4], 25, [1] with [2] pp. of advertisements, illustrated with 56 aquatints including the additional aquatint view of Kensington Palace mounted inside front cover (as called for by Abbey), 41 of the aquatints are hand-coloured. Folio, ca. 290 x 235 mm., bound in original wrappers with aquatint labels mounted on the covers, housed in the original portfolio of three-quarter red morocco, with label mounted on front. London: Printed for Samuel Leigh, 1827. An elaborate Victorian artist's manual by the artist who was best known for the paintings he made after the Battle of Waterloo. The aquatints are of views from nature, descriptive objects, etc. and are mounted in imitation of drawings. Of significant interest is the second part, which deals with colour, and which is illustrated with 106 hand-coloured examples of different colours. The four parts are comprised as follows: Part 1: Sketching from Nature. Pencil Drawing. Simple Rules of Perspective Part 2: Staining of Sketches. Tinting of Sketches. Light and Shade. Drawing in Colours Part 3: Painting in Water Colours. Effects at Different Periods of the Day. Herbage. Plants &c., for Foregrounds. Architecture Subjects, and Groups of Figures as Applicable to Landscape Scenery Part 4: Peculiar Scenery, Breadth of Light and Shade, Variously Situated Lights, Animals. Characteristic Scenery. Effect Touch and Finish. A fine copy of this extremely rare manual. OCLC records only three copies, Harvard, Yale and Cambridge, and only one incomplete copy is listed on ABPC. Abbey Life 112.

TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) by WILLIAMS, Tennessee; LERNER, Alan Jay; STEVENS, Roger L

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Title: TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS)
Author: WILLIAMS, Tennessee; LERNER, Alan Jay; STEVENS, Roger L
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Small staple holes in the upper right corner, faint folds from mailing, otherwise Fine with wonderful signatures
Description: New York, 31 July 1959. Letter. Small staple holes in the upper right corner, faint folds from mailing, otherwise Fine with wonderful signatures. A one-page letter from the Theatre Issue Committee of the PARTISAN REVIEW to a potential advertiser for an issue mostly devoted to the theater SIGNED by Williams, Lerner, and Stevens. Williams won the Pulitzer Prize twice, first for A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE and in 1955 for CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF. Lerner won 3 Tony Awards and 3 Academy Awards. He wrote the lyrics to the songs in MY FAIR LADY, PAINT YOUR WAGON, CAMELOT, and many others. Stevens produced more than 100 plays and musicals including WEST SIDE STORY and CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF.

The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation by HAKLUYT, Richard

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Title: The Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Author: HAKLUYT, Richard
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons, 1903. Reprint of 2nd edition. Complete with all half-titles and frontispieces, maps and plates. Blue cloth, top edges gilt, uncut; text toned throughout. A very good set with the Cromwell bookplate in all volumes. Reprint of the second edition of the single most important collection of English travel expeditions prior to the seventeenth century. Hakluyt’s seminal work brought together many first-hand accounts of travel across the globe, rendering this set an invaluable resource for the history of discovery in the English empire and the colonization of the modern world. These accounts range from travelogs and documentation to diplomatic reports and depositions, and even include a lengthy poem about English policy. Also included is an essay by Sir Walter Raleigh on English voyages in the sixteenth century. Hakluyt (1552?-1616) was a geographer and historian of travel and discovery whose magnum opus was this 12 volume set. Educated at Oxford, he was also a respected a member of the clergy. His penchant for travel and exploration put him in the position of making the acquaintance of many English ambassadors, captains, and voyagers, all which became resources for this seminal work.

The Grey World by Underhill, Evelyn

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: The Grey World
Author: Underhill, Evelyn
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1904. First edition. Original gray publisher's cloth binding embossed in gilt and black. A pleasing, square copy with some sunning to spine and light foxing to the closed edges of the text block and title page. Early gift inscription to front endpaper: "With warmest good wishes for Dec. 22, 1926 from Alice Herbert." The first novel by the prolific writer, pacifist, and philosopher, it has become quite scarce with no other copies on the market and OCLC reporting holdings at only 6 institutions in the U.S. "Evelyn Underhill was a prolific writer who published 39 books and more than 350 articles and reviews. In her early years she wrote about mysticism; in her latter years on the spiritual life as lived by ordinary people...Underhill began writing before she was sixteen, and her first publication (a collection of humorous verse about the law) appeared in 1902" (Evelyn Underhill Society). Only two years later, she released her first novel The Grey World. Drawing on tropes of Greek mythological heroes' missions to the underworld, and referencing Dante's Divine Comedy, Underhill's narrative is a psychological study that begins with the hero's death, moves through reincarnation and finally beyond the "grey world" to a space of happy reflection and peace. For her, it was a call for individuals to choose to appreciate the temporal beauty of the every day that so often goes unnoticed. "It seems so much easier these days to live morally rather than to live beautifully. Lots of us manage to exist for years without ever sinning against society, but we sin against loveliness every hour of the day." Among the most important English female religious writers of her time, Underhill was also "the first woman to lecture at Oxford...and the recipient of an honorary degree from the University of Aberdeen" (Greene). Her ideas about individual freedom as it applied to religion and politics even became a cornerstone of her debates with her contemporary C.S. Lewis. In their correspondence she argued that Lewis' "ideas about salvation depended too much on animals being 'tame.' This is perhaps why Lewis later emphasized that Aslan [in The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardobe] was not tame" (Armstrong). Her work, so focused on the human spiritual connection to others and the world, eventually led a previously apolitical writer to embrace pacifism and speak out at the rise of the Second World War. The Grey World, which remains under-studied compared to her later philosophical texts, gives insight into her evolution. "Her early insights deepen and mature and take on new expression. Her thought shifts from illumination of the mystic way to an exploration of the spiritual life and how it is to be lived in the world. This redirection follows from her early work and results in writing which eloquently argues for the importance of the spiritual life and how it is to be lived...The issue of war forces an articulation of one's most fundamental assumptions about reality...she calls for a deeper, more profound understanding of what it means to be a religious person in the mid-twentieth century" (Greene).

Autograph letter signed to J. W. Becker by Gassiot, John Peter

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Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: Autograph letter signed to J. W. Becker
Author: Gassiot, John Peter
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1868. Very Good. Gassiot, John Peter (1797-1877). A.L.s. to J. W. Becker. Clapham Common, Surrey, September 24, 1868. 3pp. 177 x 119 mm. Remains of mounting on verso of second leaf. Provenance: Latimer Clark. Gassiot is best known for his investigations of voltaic electricity and the discharge of electricity through gases at low pressure. His letter, which is illustrated with sketches, describes the solution to a possible problem with some electrical apparatus. Origins of Cyberspace 144. .

I Remember the Last War by [WW1 MEMOIR] HOFFMAN, Bob

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books

Title: I Remember the Last War
Author: [WW1 MEMOIR] HOFFMAN, Bob
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: York, PA: Strength & Health Publishing Co, 1940. First Edition. First printing. Octavo. Card wrappers; portrait frontispiece; 320pp. Covers foxed at spine and margins; a few creases to wrapper edges; Very Good. Hoffman (1898-1985) served on the front in France as a lieutenant in Company A of the 111th Infantry; his memoir provides perhaps the best first-hand account of the American engagement at Hill 204 in Chateau Thierry in May, 1918. Hoffman went on to become an important American entrepreneur, the founder of York Barbell Co. in Pennsylvania and the acknowledged guru of American bodybuilding through the 1960s. This memoir, issued under the imprint of Hoffman's own publishing company, has long been a sought-after work, never common thanks no doubt to the rather mediocre production quality. No hardcover issue was produced for sale.

Miss Hargreaves by Frank Baker

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Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB

Title: Miss Hargreaves
Author: Frank Baker
Seller: Jeff Bergman Books ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Coward- McCann, 1941. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Fine copy In Like Jacket $2.50 on Flap.First Edition. Vintage Classic Biblio-Mystery Excellent Fresh Copy..

Berechnung und Konstruktion der Wichtigsten Last - Hebemaschinen by Pohlhausen, A - ENGINEERING - CRANES

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Title: Berechnung und Konstruktion der Wichtigsten Last - Hebemaschinen
Author: Pohlhausen, A - ENGINEERING - CRANES
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: A good copy; some rubbing to the binding; one fldg. plate with gutter tape repair and burn into a small part of the image.
Description: Mittweida: R Schulze, 1894. First Edition.. Contemporary three-quarter leather.. A good copy; some rubbing to the binding; one fldg. plate with gutter tape repair and burn into a small part of the image.. 4to. There are 150 numbered plates (some in partial color). A comprehensive analysis and guide to the theory and construction of all kinds of heavy lifting machines and cranes. This goes from the common screw jack to the heavy lift capacity of shipyard gantry cranes. Some of the cranes depicted are self propelled (steam shovels). The plates are detailed sectional schematics.

La Campana di Morte. [Musical manuscript]. Italy, ca. 1800-1810 by ASIOLI, Bonifazio 1769-1832

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Title: La Campana di Morte. [Musical manuscript]. Italy, ca. 1800-1810
Author: ASIOLI, Bonifazio 1769-1832
Seller: J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Description: Oblong quarto (ca. 215 x 285 mm). Sewn. [1] (title), [9] pp. Scored for soprano and keyboard. Notated in dark brown ink on 10-stave rastrum-ruled paper. Slightly worn; outermost leaves browned, creased, and lightly soiled; some showthrough; minor foxing. RISM (an edition published in Zürich by Nägeli, AA2502III, 50). "Asioli's music is now forgotten, although the brilliance of his talent was widely acknowledged by his contemporaries. His idiom, pleasant and at times sentimental, is at its best in his vocal chamber music, which in style recalls Haydn and Mozart, without showing many traces of the stylistic crisis undergone by music at the beginning of the 19th century. His sinfonie have been compared to those by the young Beethoven, and his theatrical music was written in the style of Paisiello and Cimarosa. His didactic work survived longer, and it is to him that the Milan Conservatory owes the foundation of its library." Sergio Lattes and Roberta Montemorra Marvin in Grove Music Online.

Hausa in the Sudan: Process of Adaptation to Arabic. (Westafrikanische Studien. Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte. 18.) by Abu-Manga, al-Amin.

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Title: Hausa in the Sudan: Process of Adaptation to Arabic. (Westafrikanische Studien. Frankfurter Beiträge zur Sprach- und Kulturgeschichte. 18.)
Author: Abu-Manga, al-Amin.
Seller: Ars Libri Ltd (United States)
Description: Köln (Rüdiger Köppe Verlag), 1999.. xvii, (1), 215, (5)pp. 4to. Flexible cloth.

ANTIQUES MAGAZINE, 1966 by ANTIQUES

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Title: ANTIQUES MAGAZINE, 1966
Author: ANTIQUES
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: (ANTIQUES) ANTIQUES MAGAZINE, 1966. New York: Straight Enterprise, 1966. Folio. Publisher's folder. Being a run of ten issues (August and December is lacking) for the year 1966 the magazine "Antiques". Light foxing and rubbing to covers.

The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, a descriptive catalogue by LITTLE, NINA FLETCHER

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Title: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Collection, a descriptive catalogue
Author: LITTLE, NINA FLETCHER
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Colonial Williamsburg: distributed by Little, Brown & Co., Boston andToronto, 1957. First edition, 4to, pp. xvi, 402; bifolium containing pp. xvii and 394a laid in as issued; illustrated in color throughout; original brown cloth-backed marbled boards, publisher's slipcase; spine sunned; very good.

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