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I quindici libri degli elementi di Euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana by EUCLID / CAIANI, Angelo, ed. & tr

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Title: I quindici libri degli elementi di Euclide, di greco tradotti in lingua thoscana
Author: EUCLID / CAIANI, Angelo, ed. & tr
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Rare first edition of Euclid extracts in Italian, preceded only by Tartaglia’s translation of 1543, of which it is independ
Description: Rome: Antonio Blado Asolano, 1545. Rare first edition of Euclid extracts in Italian, preceded only by Tartaglia’s translation of 1543, of which it is independent. The first Italian translation made directly from the Greek. According to Rose, (Italian Renaissance of Mathematics, p. 189), the editor and translator Cainai omitted the proofs and figures of most editions because they were not Euclidean. According to Thomas-Stanford, it was issued along with (but is bibliographically separate from) a Greek language selection which the Roman publisher Blado published the same year. (Cf. Thomas-Stanford 26). The work was possibly intended for the use of young people, as in the preface, we read that it is dedicated by the translator, Angelo Caiano, ‘allo eruditissimo Giovane, Messer Antonio Altovitti”, the scion of a great Roman family. (Raphael painted a great portrait of the young man’s relation Bindo Altovitti, now in the National Gallery, Washington). In the preface, Caiani affirms that he made the translation himself from the Greek. Of course, like the Tartaglia, the translation could also have been used by any Latinless reader. OCLC lists UCLA, Brown, Utah, Burndy, Harvard and Michigan. The only copy of the Greek is held by Burndy. Little is known about Caiani. He had a connection with the learned secretary of Ranuccio Farnese Annibal Caro, having copied one of the latter’s manuscripts (Rose, ibid., p. 189). * Thomas Stanford 35; Fumagalli/Belli, Blado [1891]. Vol. I, fasc. I., No. 78; Riccardi I.208.. 8vo., 107, (3) pp., including woodcut portrait of Euclid on title. Bound in old cartonnage, title in ink on front cover. Lightly toned, old repair to wormhole in blank right corner of title, minor waterstaining at extreme lower edge of blank margin. Very good.

Wendy's Pinball. Poems. Images by Wendy Mark by SIMIC, Charles

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Title: Wendy's Pinball. Poems. Images by Wendy Mark
Author: SIMIC, Charles
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: As new.
Description: (East Hampton, NY: Horowitz, 1996). First edition. One of 15 specially bound copies printed on Rives mould-made paper at The Stinehour Press, with an original monotype by Mark, and signed by Simic and the artist; there were also 135 regular copies bound in wrappers. This special issue was immediately sold out at an exhibition of Mark's monotypes which coincided with the celebration of the publication of the book at the publisher's Easthampton gallery. As new.. 8vo, original cloth, acetate dust jacket. As new.

Preface, original typescript of Duncan's preface to Jack Spicer's One Night Stand & Other Poems, signed "Robert Duncan / San Francisco CA 94110" and dated "June 1980" in another hand by DUNCAN, Robert

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Title: Preface, original typescript of Duncan's preface to Jack Spicer's One Night Stand & Other Poems, signed "Robert Duncan / San Francisco CA 94110" and dated "June 1980" in another hand
Author: DUNCAN, Robert
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Signs of occasional light use, otherwise the typescript is in fine condition
Description: A fine authorial typescript of Duncan's Preface to Spicer's posthumous collection published by Don Allen's Grey Fox Press in 1980. The typescript contains numerous changes in Duncan's hand, to punctuation, capitalization, and word-breaks, in addition to a few additions and deletions of words. These corrections and revisions in the typescript prepared for the 1980 Grey Fox Press publication were carried over to the Preface as it appears in Duncan's A Selected Prose, published by New Directions in 1995. Signs of occasional light use, otherwise the typescript is in fine condition. 4to, 15 leaves, rectos only. Signs of occasional light use, otherwise the typescript is in fine condition.

THE OLD GUARD, A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF 1776 AND 1787 by Burr, C. Chauncy [editor]

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Title: THE OLD GUARD, A MONTHLY JOURNAL, DEVOTED TO LITERATURE, SCIENCE, AND ART, AND THE PRINCIPLES OF 1776 AND 1787
Author: Burr, C. Chauncy [editor]
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: New York: Van Evrie, Horton & Co., 162 Nassau St., 1865. Vol. III, No. 4. Complete in original printed wrappers. Pages [145]-192, as issued. Light scattered foxing, stitched and untrimmed, one closed tear without loss. Very Good. [with] DEATH OF THE PRESIDENT. Broadside, 6" x 7-5/8," tipped in, irrelevant printed verbiage on verso, asserting that Lincoln's assassination "cannot fail to fill every heart with horror and alarm. An assassin is justly held to be the foe of mankind, and every man is interested in his detection and punishment. . . But - "Booth, if he were the assassin, cannot be accused of devotion to 'the slave power', which abolition regards as its mortal enemy. He probably never owned a negro, never wished to, and may be regarded as far more of a northern than a southern man." Two columns separated by mourning rule. Very Good. "A sibilatious Copperhead sheet unceasingly sheathing secession and shearing Lincoln. Hiss! Hiss!!" [Eberstadt]. Articles oppose the War and consider Slavery the inevitable and natural condition of Negroes. Its purported mourning of President Lincoln was doubtless hypocrisy, and his effort to attach Booth to the North absurd. "A very violent Copperhead magazine" [Anderson Galleries, 1916]. "The Old Guard defended slavery and the right of secession, attacked President Lincoln violently in every number, and urged the cessation of the war. It was, it claimed, 'the only magazine published in the United States which is devoted to the fearless and uncompromising exposure of the monstrous crimes and frauds of the party in power'." [Mott]. Van Evrie, Horton & Company, the New York publisher, was notorious for its printing of anti-Lincoln, pro-Slavery material during the War, bitterly opposing the Emancipation Proclamation, hostile to rights for Negroes, and active antagonists of Republican Reconstruction. 'The Old Guard' was a sharp thorn in Lincoln's side during much of the War. It published erratically in 1862, the victim of the Government's crackdown on the press. But it re-emerged in 1863. 163 Eberstadt 153. Mott 545-546. Sabin 57133. Not in Lomazow, LCP, Bartlett.

AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WILLIAM H. WATSON, GOVERNOR SALOMON'S MILITARY SECRETARY, TO COLONEL THOMAS H. RUGER, COMMANDING THE THIRD WISCONSIN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 13 AUGUST 1862, CONCERNING PROMOTION OF OFFICERS by [Wisconsin]

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Title: AUTOGRAPH LETTER, SIGNED, FROM WILLIAM H. WATSON, GOVERNOR SALOMON'S MILITARY SECRETARY, TO COLONEL THOMAS H. RUGER, COMMANDING THE THIRD WISCONSIN VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, 13 AUGUST 1862, CONCERNING PROMOTION OF OFFICERS
Author: [Wisconsin]
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Description: Madison, 1862. Entirely in ink manuscript. Two lined leaves, each written on recto only, on stationery of State of Wisconsin, Executive Department, with engraving of a tradesman and farmer flanking the Seal of the United States, and the motto "Forward" at the head. Engraved by Wellstood, Hanks, Hay & Whiting, New York. Very Good plus. In response to Colonel Ruger's promotion recommendations, Secretary Watson assures him, on behalf of the Governor, that "the officers named by you have acted in the capacity assigned in the late action, where the regiment has suffered severely, and is unwilling to cause a moment's feeling of disappointment to a brave soldier." He laments "the severe loss incurred by the regiment and the state in the death of the gallant Lt. Col. Crane, and fears that the list of losses when complete will reveal the names of many other of the noble sons of Wisconsin, martyrs in the cause of their country." A Wisconsin lawyer, Ruger was appointed Lieut. Colonel of the Third Wisconsin, and was soon promoted to Colonel. After the War he became Reconstruction Governor of Georgia. Lt. Col. Crane had been killed at the Battle of Cedar Mountain four days earlier. Edward Salomon [1828-1909], a Prussian-born Jew, was the eighth Governor of Wisconsin. He immigrated to the United States in the aftermath of the Revolutions of 1848, settled in Milwaukee, and developed a law practice. Originally a Democrat, he supported the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, and was elected governor in 1861. He was the brother of Civil War veterans Bvt. Brig. Gen. Charles E. Salomon [1824-1894], Bvt. Maj. Gen. Frederick C. Salomon [1826-1897], and Sgt. Herman Salomon [1834-1881]; and cousin to Bvt. Brig. Gen. Edward Selig Salomon [1836-1913], Civil War hero and Governor of the Washington Territory from 1870-1872.

Poesie: Essais sur la poetique et le poete [Limited Edition, Signed] by Paul Valery

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Title: Poesie: Essais sur la poetique et le poete [Limited Edition, Signed]
Author: Paul Valery
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Paris: Collection Bertrand Guegan, 1928. Very Good+/Very Good. Paris: Collection Bertrand Guégan, 1928. First Edition, Limited to 300 copies on vélin Canson-Montgolfier of which this is no. 100. Quarto (25.5cm.,); publisher's grey card wrappers in original glassine; xvi,197pp.; eight leaves of eaux fortes by the author (collated complete). Glassine uniformly toned and chipped along margins, internally clean and sound. A Very Good to Near Fine example signed by the author on colophon in rear.

Letter Written On Behalf Of President Andrew Johnson Declining A Dinner Invitation Just One Month After He Survived Impeachment Trial: I Love Greatly To Pay Tribute To A Self Made Man A Self Made Man Myself Having Risen From The Position Of An Alderman In My Native Village Through The Various Grades Of State Legislator Governor Of My Native State, Representatives In Congress, Senator, Vice President To The Humble Position I Now Hold As President Of A Great And Glorious Republic by ANDREW JOHNSON

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Title: Letter Written On Behalf Of President Andrew Johnson Declining A Dinner Invitation Just One Month After He Survived Impeachment Trial: I Love Greatly To Pay Tribute To A Self Made Man A Self Made Man Myself Having Risen From The Position Of An Alderman In My Native Village Through The Various Grades Of State Legislator Governor Of My Native State, Representatives In Congress, Senator, Vice President To The Humble Position I Now Hold As President Of A Great And Glorious Republic
Author: ANDREW JOHNSON
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: ANDREW JOHNSON (1808-1875). Johnson was the Seventeenth President. Letter. 2 pg. 8 x 10. July 28. 1868. Washington, D.C. A letter written on behalf of A. Johnson to Gentlemen declining an invitation to a banquet celebrating the birthday of a mutual friend. As Johnson disdained handwriting, this is in the handwriting of a secretary. In giving the reason for declining the invitation, President Johnson cites I regret exceedingly that my labors on behalf of an imperiled constitution will deprive me of the pleasure of paying due honors to your distinguished guest. For Johnson, going to the banquet would be gratifying since he and the guest are self-made men: I love greatly to pay tribute to a self made man a self made man myself having risen from the position of an alderman in my native village through the various grades of state legislator Governor of my native state, representatives in Congress, Senator, Vice President to the humble position I now hold as President of a great and glorious republicPermit me to thank you gentlemen, for your kind invitation and the opportunity it thus affords me to pay my humble tribute to a self-man made. Johnson then concludes the letter by returning to his theme of an imperiled country: Believe me, that pressing official duties alone prevent me from meeting around your festive band and raising my humble voice in offering a toast to that sacred and much violated instrument, the great work of our revolution of sires, a record which we are all bound to love and obey the Constitution. That year, President Johnson survived removal by the United States Senate by one vote over violations of the Tenure of Office Act, the culmination of a running feud with Radical Republicans in Congress over Reconstruction and civil rights for blacks. A list of the gentlemen addressed in the letter is given on the left side of the first page. The letter is in fine condition and an excellent example of Andrew Johnsons mindset.

[Title in Chinese] = Stories for students, edited by Z. K. Zia by Zia, Z. K.

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Title: [Title in Chinese] = Stories for students, edited by Z. K. Zia
Author: Zia, Z. K.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: Shanghai: Christian Literature Society, 1937. Jubilee Edition ... the gift of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, 8vo, 3 parts in 1; pp. 259, [1]; [2] 390; [2], 365, [1]; gift slip tipped in at the title page; the first part annotated in pencil, likely by B. D.Hildebrand whose ownership signature is on the front pastedown; text toned throughout, front joint cracked, spine sunned, remains of glassine dust jacket laid in; otherwise, very good in original printed blue paper-covered boards. Zia Z. K. graduated from Soochow University with Bachelor of Arts degree in 1917, Auburn Seminary, Auburn, N.Y. in 1921, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, with Master of Arts degree in 1922. Mr. Zia taught in Nanjing Seminary, Nanjing, from 1922 to 1923. He taught in Soochow University Comparative Law School between 1923 and 1924. Zia Z. K. was an editor of the Young People's Friend, a Monthly in 1924-1926. Mr. Zia was also a pastor of Fitch Memorial Church. Later he served as an editor of the Shining Light, and also editor of People's Magazine (all in Chinese)" (prabook[.]com).

The Torrent by ABRUQUAH, Joseph W.

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Title: The Torrent
Author: ABRUQUAH, Joseph W.
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: (London): Longmans, 1968. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Trifle musty, moderate wear and soil, very good in wrappers. The Ghanaian author's second and final novel. Signed, we believe, by Abruquah on the first page and dated "Cape Coast 11th April, 1969." Abruquah died in Cape Coast Metropolitan, Ghana, in 1997.

Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy by Arundhati Roy

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Title: Listening to Grasshoppers: Field Notes on Democracy
Author: Arundhati Roy
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ISBN: 9780241144626
Condition: Fine
Description: First UK Edition/First Printing with a "1" to the copyright page; A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with only light foxing to the page edges. A lovely copy of this collection of essays on Indian democracy from the Booker Prize winning author; an uncommon title in this condition. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

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Global Governess : Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience by Young, Oran R., (editor)

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Title: Global Governess : Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience
Author: Young, Oran R., (editor)
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN: 9780262740203
Condition: Very Good
Description: MIT Press, 1997. Very Good. Young, Oran R., (editor). Global Governess : Drawing Insights from the Environmental Experience. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press, 1997. 364pp. Indexed. Bibliography. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with lightly bumped corners.

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