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The Theory of Perspective. by Cowley, John Lodge

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Title: The Theory of Perspective.
Author: Cowley, John Lodge
Seller: Ursus Books (United States)
Description: 1766. COWLEY, John Lodge. The Theory of Perspective Demonstrated; in a Method Entirely New. By which the Several Planes, Lines, and Points, used in this Art, are shewn by Moveable Schemes, in the True Positions in which they are to be Considered. [8], xi, [1], 117, [1] pp., with 11 full-page geometric engravings printed on heavy paper, of which 10 are cut-out to demonstrate solid forms. 4to, 250 x 200 mm., bound in contemporary calf, rebacked. London: printed for T. Payne, 1766. First edition, second issue, of this rare scientific cutout book. Cowley's Theory was designed as a geometrical primer with engraved diagrams that could be removed from the book to form solids, thus demonstrating the doctrines of the 11th, 12th, and 15th books of Euclid. The present work amends his Appendix to the Elements to Euclid (1758), and forms a new and more comprehensive attempt to explain the doctrines of planes as applicable to perspective; it is among the most elaborate and most unusual of all eighteenth-century works on geometry and perspective. Included are the eleven engraved plates, of which ten are cut-out to form regular and irregular solids, prisms, pyramids, cones, etc., each accompanied by Cowley's analytic text. Plate IX incorporates strands of coloured cotton thread to illustrate the various projected lines from a single vanishing point. Cowley's mathematical textbooks were extremely popular in their day, widely disseminated and well used, and are rarely found intact. As early as 1806 this work was recorded as "scarce" by Adam Clarke in The Bibliographical Miscellany (cf. Sotheran). Two issues of this first edition were published, one by Bennett in 1765, and the present one by T. Payne. A fine copy. PROVENANCE: Thomas Vroom, with his bookplate on the front paste-down. ESTC T178295. Vagnetti EIVb47. Lowndes II, 540. Not in Norman, Sotheran Bibliotheca Chemico-Mathematica, Honeyman Collection, Wheeler Gift, or Cajori.

Secretaria de Guerra y Marina...El Exmo. Sr. Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana Se Ha Servido Dirigirme el Decreto Que Sigue. "El Presidente...sabed: Que para Manifestar el Justo Sentimiento de la Nacion y del Ejercito por la Captura del Benemerito de la Patria Presidente General D. Anotnio Lopez de Santa Anna..." [caption title and first lines of text] by [Mexico]. [Texas]

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Title: Secretaria de Guerra y Marina...El Exmo. Sr. Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana Se Ha Servido Dirigirme el Decreto Que Sigue. "El Presidente...sabed: Que para Manifestar el Justo Sentimiento de la Nacion y del Ejercito por la Captura del Benemerito de la Patria Presidente General D. Anotnio Lopez de Santa Anna..." [caption title and first lines of text]
Author: [Mexico]. [Texas]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Mexico City: May 20, 1836. Very good.. Broadside, approximately 12 x 8.25 inches. Light wear, including a couple of small chips at edges. Minor wrinkling and toning at left edge. Contemporary manuscript annotations and docketing. A rare and significant Mexican broadside decree, dated May 20, 1836, promulgated by the Secretary of War, José Maria Tornel, that declares a state of mourning following the capture of Santa Anna at the Battle of San Jacinto. The interim president of Mexico, José Justo Corro, orders that a daily reminder of his capture "while fighting to save the integrity of the national territory" be placed at army muster points in town plazas and squares, that black bands be affixed to military banners and guidons, and that flags be flown at half mast from forts, army plazas, and ships until Santa Anna regains his freedom. It reads as follows: "El Presidente interino de la Républica Mexicana á los habitantes de ella, sabed: Que para manifestar el justo sentimiento de la Nacion y del ejército por la captura del benemérito de la Pátria Presidente General D. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, se observarà lo prevenido en los articulos siguentes. "1o. En la órden diaria del ejército de las plazas y de todos los cuerpos, se asentará el periodo siguente. 'En 21 de Abril de 1836, fué hecho prisionero el Presidente de la Républica General D. Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, peleando por salvar la integridad del territorio nacional.' "2o. Mientras dure en prision S.E. el Presidente de la Républica, se pondrá á las banderas y á los guiones de los cuerpos de ejército un lazo de crespo negro. "3o. El pabellon nacional se pondrá en las fortlezas, plazas de armas, y buques nacionales á media asta, entre tanto no obtenga su libertad el Presidente de la Républica." The present copy contains interesting manuscript annotations indicating that it was sent to the state government of Durango, where it was received and ordered to be published as a bando on June 7, 1836, and is signed on the verso by state officials. Streeter knew of this circular, but did not have a copy. We locate only three copies of the present, original issue of the orders, at Yale, Indiana University, and Baylor; as well as a republication one day later by the Secretary of the Treasury, also at Yale; and a Zacatecas bando of the order, at the Bancroft. Streeter Texas 879 (note).

Glorias de Maria Santissima en Sermones Duplicados para Todas Sus Festividades by Pedro de San Jose

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Title: Glorias de Maria Santissima en Sermones Duplicados para Todas Sus Festividades
Author: Pedro de San Jose
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: About good.
Description: Huesca: Juan Nogues, 1645. About good.. [4],311,[15] leaves. Small quarto. Contemporary limp vellum, ties lacking, manuscript spine title. Later manuscript ownership inscription and drawing on front flyleaf; outer portion of title page torn away and repaired, not affecting text.. Text block trimmed closely at bottom edge, lower corner dampstained, tanned. Half of leaf 269 torn away, several leaves with text blacked out as though by censorship; small portion of final leaf with loss and repair, slightly affecting text. Second edition after the first of the previous year. A substantial compilation of this Augustinian's sermons on the Virgin Mary. Other editions followed in 1651 and 1658; sermons here are on topics such as the Assumption, the Visitation, the Purification, Our Lady of the Snow, and Mary and the Rosary. The title page has an engraving of the Virgin Mary, showing some wear after use in the first edition of the text. OCLC locates a single copy of the 1644 edition, and no copies of the present edition, though we suspect the record from the Philippines that identifies the date as 1643 may in fact be this 1645 edition. With the paper browned as was common in many Spanish books of this period. Palau 292436.

DISSERTATION ON SUSPENDED RESPIRATION and ESSAY ON VITAL SUSPENSION by COLEMAN, Edward

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Title: DISSERTATION ON SUSPENDED RESPIRATION and ESSAY ON VITAL SUSPENSION
Author: COLEMAN, Edward
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1791. RESURECTION MACHINE COLEMAN, Edward. A DISSERTATION ON SUSPENDED RESPIRATION, from Drowning, Hanging, and Suffocation: in which is recommended a different Mode of Treatment to any hitherto pointed out. London: J. Johnson, 1791. First edition (a second was published in 1802). Octavo. [10]xv[1]284pp. +[1]f. Dr. Coleman's method involves the use of a seven-part device, depicted in a folding engraving, to bring air supplied by a bellows into the trachea. Bound together with: AN ESSAY ON VITAL SUSPENSION: Being an attempt to investigate and ascertain those Diseases in which the Principles of Life are apparently extinguished. By a Medical Practitioner. Third edition. London: Rivington, 1741. (Only two copies in the OCLC). Leather spine dry and cracked; one marbled board detached. Coleman's engraving, bound at the beginning, is nearly detached. Quite scarce.

Ross. A Dramatic Portrait (Inscribed first edition) by Rattigan, Terence

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Title: Ross. A Dramatic Portrait (Inscribed first edition)
Author: Rattigan, Terence
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Hamish Hamilton, 1960. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. Inscribed by the author "To David Brass/With every good wish,/Terence Rattigan." A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Small octavo (7 1/4 x 4 13/16 inches; 180 x 123 mm.). [1]-122 pp. Bound in publisher's red paper cloth over boards, spine lettered in silver. Original pictorial dust jacket, spine slightly darkened and with a few short tears at extremities. Terence Mervyn Rattigan (1911-1977) was a popular English playwright. His play's themes ranged from satire to social issues and relationships. Incredibly prolific, he wrote such plays as the French Without Tears, The Winslow Boy, Follow my Leader, The Deep Blue Sea, and Separate Tables, among many others (ODNB). T. E. Lawrence was the inspiration for his 1960 play, Ross, starring Alec Guinness as Lawrence, with Harry Andrews as Allenby and Gerald Harper as Dickinson. Not only was the show well reviewed, but it ran for almost two years. Ross was Rattigan's second most commercially successful play. Attempts were made to adapt the play into a film, but preparations were halted due to the production of Laurence in Arabia. David Brass is an antiquarian bookseller whose shop at E. Joseph in Charing Cross Road, London was frequently visited by Terence Rattigan in the sixties. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.

CROSS CREEK (Feb 9, 1982) Revised Final Shooting script adapted from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' memoir by Dalene Young by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (source), Dalene Young

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Title: CROSS CREEK (Feb 9, 1982) Revised Final Shooting script adapted from Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' memoir by Dalene Young
Author: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (source), Dalene Young
Seller: Walterfilm, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Culver City, CA: Robert Radnitz Productions, 1982. Vintage original film script, 11 x 8 5/8" (28 x 22 cm.), brad bound, pictorial wrappers, mimeograph, 124 pp. Extreme edges of some pages lightly dog eared, light occasional rippling, very good+. Revisions on various colors of paper are dated up through 4/10/82. Martin Ritt directed Mary Steenburgen, Rip Torn, Peter Coyote, and Alfred Woodard in this adaptation of Rawlings' memoir about her life as a writer in Florida, where she eventually wrote THE YEARLING. And this screenplay about the life of a woman writer was in turn written by another woman writer, Dalene Young. This gentle film received four Academy Award nominations.

The Happy Hunting Ground: Personal Experiences in the Low-Country of South Carolina by A. S. Salley, Jr

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Title: The Happy Hunting Ground: Personal Experiences in the Low-Country of South Carolina
Author: A. S. Salley, Jr
Seller: Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: The State Company, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 0x0x0. Inscribed by Author. Hardcover First Edition with dust jacket in archival protective wrapper. RARE to find with the jacket. Jacket shows slight soiling and minor shelf wear. A small amount of chipping along the top edge. Not obtrusive in appearance. Actual copy of the described book is shown. Internally the pages are clean and unmarked, except for Authorial inscription ("Yours very truly, A. S. Salley, Jr.") written on the front free end paper. A nice copy of this RARE book with its jacket. Professional packaging and prompt shipping.

CHRIST THE GRAND SUBJECT OF THE GOSPEL MINISTRY. A SERMON PREACHED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REVEREND MR. SAMUEL WEST, TO THE PASTORAL OFFICE OVER THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN NEEDHAM. APRIL 25TH, 1764. BY SAMUEL WEST, A.M. PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN DARTMOUTH. TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, THE CHARGE BY HIS FATHER, THE REVEREND MR. THOMAS WEST, OF ROCHESTER. AND THE RIGHT HAHD [sic] OF FELLOWSHIP, BY THE REV. MR. BALCH, OF DEDHAM by West, Samuel

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Title: CHRIST THE GRAND SUBJECT OF THE GOSPEL MINISTRY. A SERMON PREACHED AT THE ORDINATION OF THE REVEREND MR. SAMUEL WEST, TO THE PASTORAL OFFICE OVER THE CHURCH OF CHRIST IN NEEDHAM. APRIL 25TH, 1764. BY SAMUEL WEST, A.M. PASTOR OF THE CHURCH IN DARTMOUTH. TO WHICH ARE ANNEXED, THE CHARGE BY HIS FATHER, THE REVEREND MR. THOMAS WEST, OF ROCHESTER. AND THE RIGHT HAHD [sic] OF FELLOWSHIP, BY THE REV. MR. BALCH, OF DEDHAM
Author: West, Samuel
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Boston: Samuel Kneeland, 1764. [4], 28pp. With the half title. Stitched, untrimmed, forecorners turned. small hole in last leaf slightly affecting a couple of letters, else Very Good. West says "the great concern" of ministers is "to preach the gospel of Christ in its native purity and simplicity, avoiding that parade of words and shew of learning, which tends to obscure rather than to set in a just light the true faith of Christ." He warns young West to avoid the "affected ornaments of rhetorick, which only serve to amuse the mind, and draw it off from the simplicity of the gospel." This is one of the scarcer ordination sermons of the 1760's: FIRST EDITION. Evans 9869. ESTC W37368 [Harvard, Yale, AAS, Huntington with a total of 7 copies].

An Optimistic Philadelphia Man Writes Home To His Wife And Daughter Before Leaving New Orleans To Fight In The Mexican-American War by (MEXICAN WAR)

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Title: An Optimistic Philadelphia Man Writes Home To His Wife And Daughter Before Leaving New Orleans To Fight In The Mexican-American War
Author: (MEXICAN WAR)
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: (MEXICAN WAR). ALS. 1pg. May 24, 1846. On Board the Steamer Diana. An autograph letter signed Tho.s R. Heritage. Heritage had just enlisted in the United States Army as part of the Louisville Light Artillery and was leaving via New Orleans to fight in the Mexican-American War. He wrote home to his wife and daughter. My Dear Wife/ It is with a heart somewhat full that I address you at this time but it is not because I have volunteerd [sic] in the service of my Country and bound for the seat of war but from the fact that money has not been furnished me according to promise that I might leave you in a better situation Capt E.B. Howe has given me 2 Dols that I send you by Mr Johnson as I shall not need it When at Orleans and Mustered under Genl Gaines I trust I shall do at every opportunity I should have called and seen you again but concluded it was best not I sincerely hope that you will not worry yourself but keep good Heart trusting that we will meet again at least one year but probably sooner for it certainly will not take 30.000 men long to make Mexico sue for peace on any terms we are now hauling out into the stream. Now my Dear Martha I sincerely trust that you will be a comfort to your mother by being dutiful and obedient to her during my absence and rest assured that I shall never disgrace the stars and stripes under which I rally in thought word or action believing that our cause is just and that we shall be protected by the God of Battles. Now my pet you must love Mamma by a good girl and kiss her very often for your papa and when you go to school try to learn so fast that you will be able to read my letters. P.S please file all the letters you receive during my absence. Your affectionate Husband Tho.s R. Heritage Sergant Johnson sends his best respects. Heritage was from Philadelphia; he was disabled in the war and sent home the following year. The letter is in very good condition with an uneven left edge, other wear, and a mild ink stain near the center.

The Original Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam] by Graves, Robert; Ali-Shah, Omar (Translators / Commentaries)

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Title: The Original Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayaam [Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam]
Author: Graves, Robert; Ali-Shah, Omar (Translators / Commentaries)
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1968. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. One of 500 copies, octavo size, 96 pp., signed by both Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah, in a slipcase. This edition of "The Rubaiyyat" by Persian mathematician and astronomer Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) is translated by British poet Robert Graves (1898-1985) and Omar Ali-Shah (1922-2005), a writer and leading expert on Naqshbandi Sufism. Their translation deviates from that of Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883), who created the first and most famous translation of Khayyam's poetry, and both Graves and Ali-Shah are critical of Fitzgerald's translation and his (often erroneous) interpretation of the Farsi language. Although their translation was met with controversy, as it was supposedly based upon a twelfth-century manuscript that was never produced, Graves and Ali-Shah create a translation of Khayyam's poetry with more sensibility to how the poet may have intended it. Graves was a poet and writer himself, best known for his historical novel "I, Claudius" and numerous collections of poetry, and brings a poet's discernment to these ancient set of quatrains. ___DESCRIPTION: Quarter black cloth with cream paper boards, gilt lettering on the spine, fore-edge rough cut, cream endpapers; octavo size (9.5" by 6.5"), pagination: [i-x] 1-86, one of 500 copies, this number 202, signed by Robert Graves and Omar Ali-Shah on the limitation page. In a slipcase covered in cream paper with a light salmon-coloured paper label with red and black ruled borders and title in red and black. ___CONDITION: A fine copy; the covers clean, the corners straight and unrubbed, the binding tight with solid hinges, and the interior is clean and bright; crisp and as new. The slipcase is near fine, strong and sturdy, clean, free of splits or tears to the seams; light overall soil and a hint of wear to one seam. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

Die Regimentstochter (Signed Limited Edition) by DEAN, Tacita

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Title: Die Regimentstochter (Signed Limited Edition)
Author: DEAN, Tacita
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Fine in printed wrappers, still publisher's glassine.
Description: Göttingen: Steidl, 2005. Fine in printed wrappers, still publisher's glassine.. Limited edition. Octavo. SIGNED by Dean and numbered 887 of an edition of 1000 copies. An artist's book created out of a found collection of German 1940s-era opera programs, purchased at a Berlin flea market. Dean has repurposed the found objects, cutting segments out of the covers to reveal the contents within, in a statement on the politicization of culture during the Third Reich.

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