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Archimedis Opera quae extant. Novis Demonstrationibus Commentariisque illustrata by ARCHIMEDES/ed. RIVAULT, David

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Title: Archimedis Opera quae extant. Novis Demonstrationibus Commentariisque illustrata
Author: ARCHIMEDES/ed. RIVAULT, David
Seller: Martayan Lan, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Paris: Claude Morel, 1615. Hardcover. Near Fine. Folio [35 x 22.5 cm]. (22) ff., 549 (i.e. 551, with frequent misnumberings) pp., including title printed in red and black, bilingual text in Greek and Latin in two columns, and numerous woodcut diagrams and illustrations. Bound in full 17th-century calf, with unidentified gilt armorial device on both covers and gilt trim; spine in 7 compartments bearing gilt ornaments, arms, and title. Very light dampstaining touching margins of title and first few leaves; lower right corner of first few leaves repaired and following leaves dog-eared; otherwise an exceptionally clean, wide margined copy in a superb near-contemporary binding. First edition of the most influential seventeenth-century edition of Archimedes' complete works. The work contains the Greek text with a Latin "trot" running alongside and has extensive exegetical notes. It was still regarded as the best edition in 1670 when Sturm made his German translation. "The success of the humanist mathematicians in uncovering, clarifying, translating and providing commentaries on the major scientific texts of the ancient authors should not be seen as peripheral to the scientific revolution. The mastery of the Greek and Latin texts was an essential stage in the attempt to 'surpass the ancients,' and the extensive publishing of new and better-understood texts by the classical mathematicians played an integral role in the founding of the 'new sciences'" (Martin Kemp, The Science of Art, p. 76). Mathematician, courtier, and man of letters, the editor David Rivault (1571-1616) was an intimate of the great classical scholars Casaubon and Scaliger as well as a tutor to Louis XIII. * Riccardi I.43.7; Brunet I.384; DSB I.229; Nouvelle Biographie Generale XLII.338; C. Boyer, The Concept of Calculus, ch.4.

Amazing and Important Typed Letter Signed by Zukor, Adolph

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Title: Amazing and Important Typed Letter Signed
Author: Zukor, Adolph
Seller: Houle Rare Books & Autographs (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: ("Adolph Zukor") as President of Paramount Famous Lasky Corporation, Paramount Pictures, New York, on official letterhead, August 15th, 1928. 4to. 5 pages (recto only). Fine, fresh example of early Hollywood history. To business associate Jesse L. Lasky Hollywood, addressed formally: "Dear Mr. Lasky:" Zukor discusses in friendly, yet formal tones, current and future film projects, revenues, staff coordination operations, between New York and Hollywood/West Coast. More importantly he anticipates the success of the new sound (talking) picture. Among the films discussed are: "Abie's Irish Rose"; "Wings"; Wedding March"; "The Patriot"; "Beau Geste"; Just Married"; "Burlesque." Actors and actresses discussed include: Eddie Cantor; Ethel Barrymore. There are several references to Walter F. Wagner, the Studio's General Manager. Zukor (1873-1976), Hungarian-born American film executive and producer; founded Famous Players Lasky Corp (1916); later chairman of Paramount Pictures (1927); received a Special Academy Award in 1948. Lasky (1880-1958), American motion picture pioneer; produced the first film in Hollywood ("The Squaw Man," 1913); formed studio with brother-in-law Samuel Goldwyn, which became Paramount Pictures (1916); later produced for Fox, Warner Bros., RKO, etc. This is by far the best Zukor/Paramount letter we have seen.

[THEATER]. Le Misanthrope. Comedie en cinq actes et en vers by Moliere

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Title: [THEATER]. Le Misanthrope. Comedie en cinq actes et en vers
Author: Moliere
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Paris: Barba, Hubert, 1817. Nouvelle edition. Very good. 12mo (205 x 135 mm). [3-5], 6-76 pp. Contemporary French cartonnage, gilt "romantique" frame on both covers, lettered in gilt on the front, and on the lower the large seal of the July 1830 monarchy (see below), all edges gilt, pastedowns and endleaves of gauffered percaline (minor scuffing to the covers and spine). A very attractive copy. A FINE RELIC OF LOUIS-PHILIPPE'S LIBERAL JULY MONARCHY (1830-1848), BEING A SPECIAL CARTONNAGE BINDING CREATED FOR A SINGLE PURPOSE, NAMELY FOR PRESENTATION TO AN ATTENDEE OF A COURTLY PRODUCTION OF "LE MISANTHROPE" AT VERSAILLES. When Louis-Philippe became king in 1830, the Palace of Versailles had fallen into disrepair, having been largely unoccupied for more than four decades. In 1833 he sought to repurpose the sprawling and unimaginably huge complex for a non-residential "public" use, a program including building what became the Musee de l'Histoire de France. It is possible that our binding is an expression of his liberal policies of including non-royals in the activities of the palace. The front cover is lettered in gold: "Palais de Versailles, Spectacle de la Cour, Representation du 10 juin 1837." On the back is the armorial device of Louis-Philippe with his "Charte du 9 aout 1830" in which he proclaimed himself as King of the French (and not "King of France"). Cataloguer's note: our copy, like that of the UPenn Kislak Center, does not have an integral leaf preceding the half-title which was presumably a blank.

[SCOTTISH RESISTANCE 1682]. A serious expostulation with that party in Scotland, commonly known by the name of Whigs: Wherein is [...] plainly laid open the inconsistency of their practices by Craufurd (a.k.a. Crawfurd), James, fl. 1669-1682

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Title: [SCOTTISH RESISTANCE 1682]. A serious expostulation with that party in Scotland, commonly known by the name of Whigs: Wherein is [...] plainly laid open the inconsistency of their practices
Author: Craufurd (a.k.a. Crawfurd), James, fl. 1669-1682
Seller: Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: London: Printed by J[ohn] D[arby] for Richard Chiswell, 1682. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. Small quarto. Collation: A-H4 (final verso blank), COMPLETE. Pagination: 63, [1] pp. Recent sympathetic wrappers. Small 19th-century printed booklabel on upper left corner of title-page ("1047"). Unobtrusive blind-stamp of the Theological Institute of Connecticut (now known as the Hartford Seminary) on first and least leaves. NB: in 1976 a collection of more than 200,000 books from the Hartford Seminary Library were sold to Emory University, including this one --> deaccessioned from Pitts Theology Library. Preserved in a fine protective case. ¶ FIRST AND ONLY EDITION. Ours is apparently the only copy on the market. A rare tract condemning Scottish resistance theory, in which the author, an Episcopalian cleric, complains that the Scots had been "unhappily brought into such a corruption of morals as has not been hitherto known among Christians [...] Are not assassinations taught, as well as practis'd amoung us?" (p. 4). ¶ Craufurd echoes the distinction stridently made by Thomas Hobbes in 'Leviathan' who had insisted that "Law, and Right, differ as much as Obligation and Liberty." (SOURCE: Clare Jackson, "Restoration Scotland, 1660-1690: royalist politics, religion and ideas" p. 62). ¶ Craufurd, of Camlard, Dalmellington, was Historiographer Royal of Scotland at the time of Charles II. ¶ REFERENCES: Wing (2nd ed.) C6865. Halkett & Laing (2nd ed.) v. 5, p. 227. Arber's Term Catalogue I, 497. McAlpin Collection IV, p. 93. ESTC R004965. Gerould, Sources of English history of the seventeenth century, 1603-1689, in the University of Minnesota Library (1921), no. 3224. Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the Faculty of Advocates, p. 426. See also 'Scottish Notes and Queries,' vol. VI, no. 4 (Sept. 1892), p. 49, no. 602.

The Horse's Tale by Kavan, Anna, and K.T. Bluth

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Title: The Horse's Tale
Author: Kavan, Anna, and K.T. Bluth
Seller: Triolet Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: London: Gaberbocchus Press, 1949. First edition. 112 pp. Gray cloth, rounded corners, spine lettered in white. No dust jacket, possibly as issued. Spine text dulled, leaves toned, as always given the paper the book was printed on. The first and only edition of one of Anna Kavan's rarest books, written with her psychiatrist and close friend Dr. Karl Bluth, printed on cheap paper in Lübeck in a fugitive edition shortly after the end of the war. Bluth was both Kavan's psychiatrist and a lifelong friend- a sounding-board, collaborator and encourager- and he also supplied Kavan with legal prescriptions of heroin, which he administered daily. After his death in 1964 Kavan said she felt abandoned. The book is not listed as a Gaberbocchus publication in The Themersons and the Gaberbocchus Press- An Experiment in Publishing, 1948-1979, Jan Kubasiewicz and Monica Strauss, eds. A reddit review describes the book thus and probably can't be bettered: "Barely exists online. Published once in a small batch in 1949. Very basic summary: A talking philosopher/poet horse founds an art movement called 'Hoofism' and achieves success in the art world. Accidentally gets drunk at a party and gets institutionalized but the friends he made earlier in the book help him get out. Eventually he moves back into his childhood horse herd. Very Freudian and overall very very weird.

Bound volume containing U. S. Govt. Publications on Camouflage, all seeming have been produced in 1942. We could not decipher most of the cover lettering. "... Appendix A Defense Plant Corporation ... Manufacturing Plant ... North Carolina" is as much as we could get)

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Title: Bound volume containing U. S. Govt. Publications on Camouflage, all seeming have been produced in 1942. We could not decipher most of the cover lettering. "... Appendix A Defense Plant Corporation ... Manufacturing Plant ... North Carolina" is as much as we could get)
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardcover. Very Good. Size of individual items varies but most are about 28 cm. All are in a flexible hard cover binding (30 cm.) with two screw and post holes running through each item along left side. It seems clear this volume full of 1942 Camouflage items was assembled as an appendix to some contract, report or other document involving the Defense Plant Corporation (a subsidiary of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation, operated by the U. S. Government, 1940-1945) and a North Carolina plant. A former owner's name (Herbert L. Coggins, 936th Eng. Cam. Bn. Avn.) is stamped on some individual items. Here is a list of all or almost memos memoranda and reports in this volume: (1) Preservation of Natural Cover during Construction. (Revised November 10, 1942); (2) Simplified Construction Methods for Protective Concealment; (3) Camouflage Bulletin No. 6 ... New Materials and Items for Camouflage; (4) Camouflage Bulletin No. 7 ... Garnishing Camouflage Nets; (5) Camouflage Bulletin No. 9 ... The Infra-Red Problem; (6) Photo Tracing for Camouflage Plans and Drawings; (7) Recent Overseas Camouflage including Air Force Combat Notes from the Far East. Compiled and revised Sept. 30, 1942; (8) Still Another Article on Camouflage, by Frank E. Alston; (9) Engineers with the Army Air Forces, by Brig-Gen. Stuart C. Godfrey; (10) Coloring of Airdrome Runways; (11) Camouflage Notes; (12) Studies of Housing for a Dispersed Airdrome; (13) Criteria for Dispersed Airdromes; (14) Criteria for Determination of Preliminary Acreage Required for Airdromes: (15) Aviation Engineer Notes, No. 10 (Nov. 1942); (15); Camouflage of Barksdale Field, Laurens, S. C. by 21st Engineers; (16) Processing Camouflage Cloth with Field Expedients and Casein Paint (includes 9 cloth swatches and 9 same-sized color cards); (17) Cantonment Areas: Study Using Urban Patterns; Study of Disruptive Patterns (With Examples of Block Printing): Study of Dispersed Layout; (18) Chicken Feathers for Protective Concealment; (19) Turf Patterning for Protective Concealment; and (20) Dimensions of Aircraft Governing Design of Facilities.

Chess Eccentricities by Verney, George Hope (afterwards Lloyd-Verney) [1842-1896]

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Title: Chess Eccentricities
Author: Verney, George Hope (afterwards Lloyd-Verney) [1842-1896]
Seller: The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (United States)
Condition: Good to very good
Description: [4]+xvi+196p with diagrams. Small octavo (7 1/2" x 5 1/4") issued in cream stiff boards with black lettering to spine and red and black lettering and pictorial to cover. (Betts: 55-3). First edition.Contents: Chess for four players (rules; correspondence resulting from the publication of the author's "Four Handed Chess", 1881, concerning points of play; varieties of Four Handed Chess with rules varying from those given by him 1881). Chess for three players (varieties of Three Handed Chess with descriptions, rules of play). Chess for two players (varieties of play in ordinary chess: the old games as played in India, Syria, Arabia, Hindustan, Tibet, Burma, Java, Borneo, China; the Small, or Old chess; Persian chess; the Double Chess game; varietes of placing the pieces; varieties of boards; varieties with additional pieces, such as the Courier Game, The Emperor's Game, The Arabic Game, Full Chess Game, Turkish Chess). Chess for six players, eight players and other oddities of the chess board.Condition:Corners bumped, edge wear, re-backed, boards rubbed and faded, new label. A good to very good copy.

Contemporary Political Systems. Classifications and Typologies by Bebler, Anton and Seroka, Jim

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Title: Contemporary Political Systems. Classifications and Typologies
Author: Bebler, Anton and Seroka, Jim
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Boulder & London (1990): Lynne Rienner Publishers. First Edition. Fine. octavo, 384 pages; original maroon cloth, printed in white. A fine copy. As issued, with no dust jacket. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind. Professor Richard Dale's copy, with his bookplate on front pastedown. Professor Dale was an author, a scholar on international politics and he delivered many lectures before the United Nations. As new.

Novelty and Romancement by Carroll, Lewis

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Title: Novelty and Romancement
Author: Carroll, Lewis
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Boston: B. J. Brimmer Company, 1925. First Edition. Near Fine/No Dust Jacket. octavo, 55 pages; orange boards, black cloth spine. First Printing, stated; printed on heavy paper. Internally clean and bright, with no markings of any kind.

THE FAITHFUL MINISTERS OF JESUS CHRIST REWARDED. A SERMON, DELIVERED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. AZEL BACKUS, TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE CHURCH IN BETHLEM [sic], APRIL 6, 1791 by Backus, Charles

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Title: THE FAITHFUL MINISTERS OF JESUS CHRIST REWARDED. A SERMON, DELIVERED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REV. AZEL BACKUS, TO THE PASTORAL CARE OF THE CHURCH IN BETHLEM [sic], APRIL 6, 1791
Author: Backus, Charles
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Litchfield: Collier and Buel, 1792. 26pp, disbound, moderately foxed. Good. "Rev. Charles Backus was graduated from Yale College in 1769 and after studying theology under Rev. Levi Hart, became pastor of the church in Somers, Connecticut, from 1774 until his death. He maintained a theological school in his house for a number of years and, as a result, delivered many ordination sermons, several of which were printed. Rev. Azel Backus was his nephew." Fisher [bibliography of Litchfield imprints]. FIRST EDITION. Evans 23141. Trumbull 293. Fisher 34.

Modern American Poets (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 127) by Aiken, Conrad; Dickinson, Emily; Robinson, Edwin Arlington; Branch, Anna Hempstead; Lowell, Amy; Frost, Robert; Lindsay, Vachel; Kreymborg, Alfred; Stevens, Wallace; Williams, William Carlos; Fletcher, John Gould; H.D.; Eliot, T.S.; Millay, Edna St. Vince

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Title: Modern American Poets (The Modern Library of the World's Best Books, ML 127)
Author: Aiken, Conrad; Dickinson, Emily; Robinson, Edwin Arlington; Branch, Anna Hempstead; Lowell, Amy; Frost, Robert; Lindsay, Vachel; Kreymborg, Alfred; Stevens, Wallace; Williams, William Carlos; Fletcher, John Gould; H.D.; Eliot, T.S.; Millay, Edna St. Vince
Seller: Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: New York: The Modern Library, 1927. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. 1929-30 printing of Toledano 127.1, binding 5, purple Rockwell Kent endpapers. Lacks jacket. Spine faded, front hinge weakening, ink name on front endpaper, a few pages wrinkled or creased. 1927 Hard Cover. xiv, 367 pp. A selection of poems by American authors such as: Emily Dickinson; Edna St. Vincent Millay; T.S. Eliot; and Robert Frost, with a preface by Conrad Aiken.

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