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Plays of William Shakespeare by SHAKESPEARE STEEVENS George JOHNSON Samuel

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Plays of William Shakespeare
Author: SHAKESPEARE STEEVENS George JOHNSON Samuel
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1785. SHAKESPEARE. The Plays of William Shakespeare With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators; To Which Are Added Notes by Samuel Johnson and George Steevens. London: Printed for C. Bathurst, J. Rivington and Sons, T. Payne and Son, et al., 1785. Ten volumes. Octavo, contemporary full tree calf gilt, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, red and dark green morocco spine labels, marbled endpapers, four volumes rebacked with original spines and labels laid down. $9800.Third edition of Johnson and Steevens' Shakespeare, ""the standard for future editors and publishers,"" in handsome contemporary tree calf boards.Samuel Johnson and George Steevens' edition of Shakespeare ""was considered the best edition that had appeared up to that time, and was long regarded as the standard"" (Grolier Shakespeare's Plays, 19). ""This edition, in which were united the native powers of Dr. Johnson with the activity, sagacity, and antiquarian learning of George Steevens, superseded all previous editions and became the standard for future editors and publishers"" (Lowndes, 2261). The plays are copiously annotated throughout, with numerous introductory pieces including Johnson's famous preface. Illustrated with three engraved portraits of Shakespeare, a facsimile of his signature on his will, and a delightful folding plate of Morris dancers. ESTC T138853. Armorial bookplate in each volume.Minor spotting and offsetting, mostly to first and last few leaves. A handsome set.

Viaggio da Venezia al Sancto Sepolcro al Monte Sinai piu copiosamente descritto de li altri con disegni de li Paesi . .

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Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques

Title: Viaggio da Venezia al Sancto Sepolcro al Monte Sinai piu copiosamente descritto de li altri con disegni de li Paesi . .
Seller: White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Venezia (unstated. Zoppino was from Ferrara originally and active there as well): Nicoló Zoppino, 1519. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. One of the earliest tour guides, written for pilgrims who were in the early modern era the closest equivalent to today's tourists. The guide touches on the city and sights beginning in Venice, and proceeds along the eastern Adriatic Coast in what is now Croatia, visits numerous places on the Aegean, before reaching its destination of Jerusalem. But in the Holy Land, the book explores places outside of it, including the Red Sea and Cairo, which would add a more distant leg to the traveler, but of course would be of interest for their Biblical significance. 15 by 11 cm. Unpaginated, 117 leaves. With many woodcuts, 128 by our count. Three double paged woodcut panoramas, eight full page, or nearly so (only three or four lines of text), woodcuts, including title page. 60 woodcuts of some size -- between half page or nearly so and three quarters of the page. And 65 pictorial woodcut vignettes, not including purely ornamental flourishes. Up to 30 lines of text per page. As the book was conceived as an aide for pilgrimages, there is an emphasis on stopping at significant churches, monasteries, and other religious points-of-interest along the way. And back then, there weren't museums and the like to draw the tourist, or perhaps, one could equate churches with museums, as much art, maybe the vast majority of art, was created for churches then. And monasteries served as hotels when there was no such concept. But the book isn't exclusively a religious Baedeker; it goes into many other things of interest. Our favorite topic and digression is a discussion of animals -- the elephant, the giraffe, the goat, the ostrich, all shown in not necessarily the most realistic woodcut illustrations. The binding has a paper pastedown that was made to look like tree calf, and does so convincingly. It has some rubbing and wear, with the spine looking as if it might have been squeezed hard. In the upper front corner of the board is a small label with a number, which might be a stock number for a store or a library notation. Whatever it is, it is probably 19th century, and we think it doesn't detract from the binding in the least. There are also two small labels mounted onto the spine, one with the title, one, given the date of 1518. We hedge this dating by adding 1519 because that conforms to the dates given on the last page of the book. These spine labels, while mounted with no thought to the aesthetic effect and might have looked like mounted band-aids at one time, now blend in with the binding and are inconspicuous, their chipping and soiling not a serious issue to us. The front endpapers have some pencil and ink scribbling and a rather ugly but small modern bookplate with writing in English and Hebrew. Throughout the book there are some light smudges, some light foxing, and other stains, but the leaves overall read as on the clean side. There is one short marginal closed tear, and certainly one could cite other less than desirable examples of wear and tear, but we think no one would take issue with our grading of this book as Very Good, if not slightly better than that.

Catalogue of Books of the Mercantile Library of Boston, together with the Acts of Incorporation, and the By-Laws and Regulations Adopted January, 1848 by Boston

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Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers

Title: Catalogue of Books of the Mercantile Library of Boston, together with the Acts of Incorporation, and the By-Laws and Regulations Adopted January, 1848
Author: Boston
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: Boston: Printed for the Association, 1848. 8vo. 235 x 140 mm., [9 ¼ x 5 ½ inches]. 135 pp. Original salmon-colored printed wrappers; some darkening of the wrappers and foxing to the text block, endpapers discolored; shelf mark in ink on lower part of spine and endpapers; a sound and not unattractive copy. The Mercantile Library of Boston was established in 1820 to facilitate the moral and intellectual development of all classes of the community, especially young men. The first pages of this catalogue describe the rise and near fall of the Association and its final stabilization in the 1840's. In 1842, Daniel Webster contributed $500 to the library fund which was matched by $1,000 from ten of the Association's prominent members for the purchase of books. With this move more money were raised and the Association Library became "one of the best of its kind in the Country." After the history of the association, constitution and by-laws are printed, along with an eight-page list of members. The catalogue of the library is comprised of 112 pages, listing in short-title format, the books, daily newspapers and periodicals in the collection. It represents an impressive group of books, with focus on American history and literature, local history, business, English books, and travel. By 1877 the collection grew to 18,000 books and was merged with the collections of the Boston Public Library.

The Invention of 1870, Paine's Culinary Apparatus

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Title: The Invention of 1870, Paine's Culinary Apparatus
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: General wear.
Description: Philadelphia, PA: Paine & Wells, 1870. General wear.. A single fold circular for Paine's Culinary Apparatus, a machine which cooked food via steam. Invented by Clinton J. Paine, the apparatus "cooked in TWO-THIRDS the time, with an outlay of half the labor and ONE-TENTH of the expense required in the use of an ordinary cook stove." The machine could be placed any where in the home, such as on the parlor table. Supposedly it was able to cook a meal at the cost of one cent of fuel, and as such would play for itself within sixty days. The front has an illustration of the machine, which features a container for the fuel, a tea pot shaped container to heat the water in and produce the steam, and a box in which the food cooked in. Single fold circular. Printed in blue ink. Measures 5 1/2" x 3 1/2" (folded),

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