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Ma‘arikh ha-ma‘arakhot (Survey of the Orders): Dictionarium absolutissimum by Aquin, Philippe d’ (Aquinas; formerly Mordechai Cresque)

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Title: Ma‘arikh ha-ma‘arakhot (Survey of the Orders): Dictionarium absolutissimum
Author: Aquin, Philippe d’ (Aquinas; formerly Mordechai Cresque)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Good+
Description: Paris: Antoine Vitré, 1629. First edition. Hardcover. Good+. Folio. Signed: a4, e2, A-3B6, 3C4 (= 298 leaves). [12], 584pp. Paginated from right to left. Full title and imprint in both Hebrew and Latin, with woodcut printer's device; title within decorative letterpress border; woodcut lettrines and head-pieces; printed marginalia. Text in two columns. Eighteenth-century calf, scuffed, especially at front cover; spine with raised bands and gilt morocco morocco labels; edges stained red; green silk ribbon marker. Title leaf skilfully mounted on eighteenth-century paper. Text crisp and clean, with ample borders. Only edition of this rare and highly unusual Hebrew and Aramaic dictionary, composed by the formerly Jewish convert to Catholicism, Mordechai Cresque of Carpentras, who derived his new name Philippus d’Aquin (or Aquinas; 1578-1650) from the place of his baptism in Aquino (Italy). Printed almost entirely in the fine bold rashi characters ("grosse glose hebraicque") cut by Guillaume I Le Bé in 1592, only the vocalised quotations and the lemmata are in Le Bé's square Hebrew script. Apart from the Latin title, dedication, approbations, a poetic encomium, and the alpha-numeric leaf signatures, the work is printed entirely in Hebrew characters. It ends with a short notice in Latin and Hebrew on the printing errors, which are corrected on the last three pages. The author announces at the title that all Hebrew (biblical and rabbinic-talmudic) and Aramaic terms are to be found in Ma'arikh ha-Ma'arakhot, including many that do not appear in any existing lexicons, among Jews or Christians. D'Aquin notes in particular that rare and difficult terms in rabbinic and cabalistic literature, along with obscure abbreviations are all clearly explained. "The work is called in Hebrew Maarik ha-maarikot, i. e. “Survey of the orders”, a term which in the plural is also applied to "battle-lines" (Wolf 140 translates Disponens ordines sive acies). One cannot help wonder if there is not a connection with the political situation at the time, when the Huguenot town of La Rochelle had to submit to the French Crown in 1628. The privilege for our book has "Données au Camp devant la Rochelle le 19. Septembre 1628" and the work is dedicated to Cardinal Richelieu whose conquest of La Rochelle is also extolled in a Hebrew poem by the author... But the types are also reminiscent of war: did not Le Bé cut them "après le siège de Paris, pour passer l'ennui"? (see Carter & Vervliet p. 15). They were prominently displayed afterwards in Vitray's type-specimen of 1636" (Smitskamp). Among the eleven scholars whose approbations grace the present volume are Gabriel Sionita (1577-1645; professor of Arabic and Syriac at the College de France); Gilbert Gaulmin (1585-1665; Orientalist); Denis Petau (1583-1652; Jesuit theologian); and Jean Morin (1591-1659; theologian and Orientalist). Morin offers quite extravagent praise: "nihil hactenus in eo studii genere comparandum vidit Europa." Provenance: A morocco label on the spine reads Me-izabin. Hirsch. Wolf Kola, i. e. From the legacy of Hirsch. References: Baillet, Jugement de Scavans 3 (1685): 729. Fürst 1:47-48. Gesenius, Geschichte, 113: “umfasst auch das Chadaïsche und Rabbinische” (Hebrew title incorrectly transcribed without the definite article and indication of plural). Smitskamp, Cat. no. 611 (but, notably, not in Philologia Orientalis). Steinschneider (Handbuch) 129: “Früher sehr gesucht und selten. Heidenheim wollte se zuerst wieder ediren, s. Catal. p. 739.” Wolf, Historia lexicorum, 140. For the interest of Richelieu in typographical matters, and his foundation of the Imprimerie Royale in 1640, see Updike 1:238-40. Not in Goldsmith Hebrew title: מעריך המערכות.

Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution by Lock, Robert Heath

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Title: Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution
Author: Lock, Robert Heath
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: London: John Murray, 1906. First edition, first printing. FIRST PRINTING OF PIONEERING ANALYSIS OF THE EMERGENCE OF MODERN GENETICS AFTER THE DISCOVERY OF MENDEL'S WORK. 8 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, gilt title to cover and spine, frontispiece portrait of Darwin with tissue guard, i-xv, 299 pp, [4] pp publisher's advertisements. Small light stains front cover, spine darkened, residue from removed paper (bookplate?) front and read paste downs. LAID IN: light blue foxed page with heading in red type, "Telegrams to Wybunbury, Doddington, Nantwich", and blue ink listing geologic eras in contemporary hand. Very good in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE PREFACE: "For the group of subjects of which I intended to give I brief account Mr. W. Bateson has recently proposed the term 'genetics,' an expression which sufficiently indicates their scope to the initiated. Since, however. the meaning of the word 'genetics' is not yet clearly mderstood by everybody, it seemed better to adopt in the present instance a somewhat more descriptive title." HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE: A W F Edwards. "Robert Heath Lock and his textbook of genetics, 1906." Genetics, Volume 194, Issue 3, 1 July 2013, Pages 529–537, "Robert Heath Lock (1879–1915), a Cambridge botanist associated with William Bateson and R. C. Punnett, published his book Recent Progress in the Study of Variation, Heredity, and Evolution in 1906. This was a remarkable textbook of genetics for one appearing so early in the Mendelian era. It covered not only Mendelism but evolution, natural selection, biometry, mutation, and cytology. It ran to five editions but was, despite its success, largely forgotten following Lock's early death in 1915. Nevertheless it was the book that inspired H. J. Muller to do genetics and was remembered by A. H. Sturtevant as the source of the earliest suggestion that linkage might be related to the exchange of parts between homologous chromosomes. Here we also put forward evidence that it had a major influence on the statistician and geneticist R. A. Fisher at the time he was a mathematics student at Cambridge." Offered here is the first printing of an important book. The Sutton-Boveri chromosome theory of heredity of 1902 had little support until the Drosophila work of Thomas Hunt Morgan's group after 1910. Lock devotes over 100 pages to mendelism and cytology, and Elof Axel Carlson says that here Lock achieved "the very union of cytology and Mendelism which was later borne out at Schermerhorn Hall [by Morgan et al.]" The book influenced many important early geneticists. Hermann Joseph Muller (later a leading light in the Morgan group, and Nobel laureate) says that in 1908 he took Edmund Beecher Wilson's "thrilling one semester course on heredity amd the chromosomes, variation and evolution. In this the text chosen by Wilson was Lock's extraordinary book of 1906 - too far 'ahead of its time' to be remembered now - which, with less caution and fewer qualifications than employed by Wilson himself, advocated the sufficiency of Mendelism, multiple factors, the chromosome theory (including exchange of linearly arranged genes during parasynapsis, after de Vries) and the natural selection of mutations, as the basis of all heredity and evolution.". (Muller actually read the book before he took the course, while working as a clerk in a New Jersey Hotel). Lock died in 1915 of a heart attack after influenza and the 4th edition (1916) was brought out by Bella with updating by Leonard Doncaster, who died in 1920 at the age of 42. Thus, two of the youngest and most dynamic members of the Bateson "pack" were not available to continue his work. OCLC: 31 editions were published between 1906 and 1920 in English and held by 286 libraries worldwide.

Lake Tahoe Reno: Vacation Wonderland by Hayden, Emmet

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Title: Lake Tahoe Reno: Vacation Wonderland
Creator: Hayden, Emmet
Seller: Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description: Glendale, CA: The Hayden Map Guide, 1939. Map [71 cm x 43 cm] / [28" x 17"] Folds as issued. A few short neat splits. About very good. The location of Richardson Lovelock inc. is neatly highlighted and the corresponding advertisement at the upper left is neatly outlined. Chamber of Commerce style pictorial map of the Lake Tahoe area, including Truckee, Reno, Carson City, and Minden, with area businesses and attractions located. Mileage chart at the head and trail time chart at the foot. Inset maps of Pyramid lake and California/Nevada. Business advertisements and listings across this map. We locate three institutional holdings. Not in Rumsey. Rare. Emmet Hayden founded the Hayden Map Company in the 1920s, originally producing property maps and land surveys in the rapidly expanding Los Angeles housing market of the time. After starting up a summer guide business in Mammoth Lakes, the eternal questions about where to hunt, fish, hike, and camp, led to the evolution of the Hayden Map Company, as primarily a producer of wilderness and outdoors guides and maps.

Our Weakened Constitution: An Historical and Analytical Study of the by Thomas, Samuel Bell; E. Williams; Vile, John intro

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Title: Our Weakened Constitution: An Historical and Analytical Study of the
Author: Thomas, Samuel Bell; E. Williams; Vile, John intro
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Description: 2016. ISBN-13: 9781616195304. ISBN-10: 1616195304. Thomas, Samuel Bell in collaboration with Edward Williams. Our Weakened Constitution: An Historical and Analytical Study of the Constitution of the United State [sic] and of the Additions to the Original Text Undertaken to Place the Facts before the American People, and to Emphasize the Present Necessity for a Movement in Behalf of an Unviolated Constitution, State Integrity and the Rights and Immunities Established by the Founders of this Republic. Originally published: New York: Dauber & Pine Bookshops, 1932. [ii], (III-XXVII new Introduction), vii, 321 pp. Reprinted 2016 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. With a new introduction by John R. Vile, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN. ISBN-13: 9781616195304. ISBN-10: 1616195304. Hardcover. New. $59.95 * Written in 1932, this book offers a liberal interpretation of a "living Constitution" and argues for the types of limits on the United States Constitution being considered today. Thomas: - interprets the 2nd amendment as a state rather than a federal issue - examines the question of substantive limits on the content of constitutional amendments - advances the novel idea that the Bill of Rights was only designed to limit the national government and not the states - proclaims the unconstitutionality of the 18th amendment which prohibited alcohol - questions equal state suffrage in the U.S. Senate, the extensive powers of the president, the four-year presidential election cycle, "the composition and tenure of the Federal Judiciary" and the authority of the U.S. Supreme Court. Samuel Bell Thomas [1869-1943] practiced law in New York. He graduated from the University of Texas and received his law degree from Southwestern University. He lost his bid for Congress as a New York Independence League candidate in 1910.

THE EVERLASTING STORY OF NORY by Baker, Nicholson

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Title: THE EVERLASTING STORY OF NORY
Author: Baker, Nicholson
Seller: Revere Books, ABAA & IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780679439332
Condition: Near Fine
Description: NY: Random House, 1998. First edition, first prnt. Review copy with the publisher's material laid-in. Signed by Baker on the title page. Booksigning event flyer laid-in. Spine ends bumped. Unread copy in Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcovers. Near Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Review Copy.

In the Heart of the Country by Coetzee, J.M.

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Title: In the Heart of the Country
Author: Coetzee, J.M.
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ISBN: 9780140062281
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Description: London: Penguin Books, 1982. First Edition Thus. Paperback. Very Good. Very Good. Wraps rubbed and bumped at the edges. Square and firmly bound with toned page, clean otherwise. The first Penguin paperback of Coetzee's experimental novel.

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