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Adam and Eve in Paradise. Mel. Herzlich thut mich Verlangen

Adam and Eve in Paradise. Mel. Herzlich thut mich Verlangen by (Broadside)

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Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers
Title
Adam and Eve in Paradise. Mel. Herzlich thut mich Verlangen
Author
(Broadside)
Seller
De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description
Ephrata: Samuel Baumann, 1811. Broadside. 405 x 330 mm., (16 x 13 inches). Watermark "A K" for Abraham Keller. Title and two columns of text in German, with a central woodcut image of Adam and Eve, the Tree of Knowledge and the Serpent; all enclosed with a typographical border. Folded; with some paper repair to upper right corner and at the margin of the center fold; the entire broadside expertly backed with Japanese paper. 'Adam and Eve' broadsides were among the most popular of all Pennsylvania German broadsides. They were printed by many printers in numerous editions, but primarily in German. Walter Boyer attributed the popularity of 'Adam and Eve' broadsides to the quality of the graphic image, the broadsides wide distribution and its expression of Christian values." This Ephrata printing by Samuel Bauman is the earliest example of the 'Adam and Eve' broadside and includes all the elements that were used in later examples printed by other Pennsylvania German printers. This includes the sixteen-stanza poem printed in two columns, the central woodcut of Adam and Eve, the use of fig leaves to cover the genitalia of both figures, and the serpent offering the apple to Eve. Research by Alfred L. Shoemaker has identified twenty-nine separate issues of this form of broadside by fourteen different printers. In Walter Boyer's essay "Adam und Eve im Paradies" he describes the Adam and Eve broadside printed by Samuel Baumann in 1811. At the base of the woodblock the initial "R & W S" are carved into the block and Boyer makes the reasonable assumption that they are the signature of the cutter who created the block. The woodcut was so popular that it was used in a Philadelphia printing of the broadside by Moritz Dahlem fifty years after it was originally cut. Samuel Baumann was a member of the Ephrata Cloister and a papermaker and printer who inherited the business in 1810 from his father John, a distinguished member of the Cloister. His cousin Joseph took over the business from Samuel in 1816 and was carried on well into the middle of the century. "Samuel Bauman (1788-1820) was a householder at the Ephrata Cloister. He printed only a short time and from about 1810 to 1816. Products from his press were primarily broadsides, with only one booklet credited to him" (Earnest). The paper stock was made by Abraham Keller and the watermark 'A K' appears below the woodcut in the near center of the sheet. "Abraham Keller married Elizabeth Feger, daughter of the papermaker Paly Feger. Sometime before Feger died in 1790 he deeded his paper mill in Exeter Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania to Keller... Hathan Sellers manufactured moulds for Keller in 1796 and 1804. On February 23, 1804, Keller ordered a mould watermarked 'A K', Earnest, Flying Leaves and One-Sheets, p. 200. Yoder, Pennsylvania German Broadside, pp. 202-03. Walter Boyer, "Adam und Eva im Paradies," The Pennsylvania Dutchman 8, no. 2 (Fall-Winter 1956/57), pp. 14-18. Alfred Schoemaker, "Adam and Eve Broadsides" The Pennsylvania Dutchman, 4, no. 6 (October 1952), pp. 4-5. Stopp, 4:70. The Times of Philadelphia, February 23, 1879. Gravell, Miller & Walsh, American Watermarks, pp. 2 and 278.
WOOD BROTHERS, COACH BUILDERS. 49, 51 & 53 LAFAYETTE PLACE, N.Y.

WOOD BROTHERS, COACH BUILDERS. 49, 51 & 53 LAFAYETTE PLACE, N.Y. by Wood Brothers

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Title
WOOD BROTHERS, COACH BUILDERS. 49, 51 & 53 LAFAYETTE PLACE, N.Y.
Author
Wood Brothers
Seller
David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
[New York, 1876. Oblong 4 1/2" x 3", with chromolithograph original illustrated and printed wrappers. 8pp plus wrappers. Lightly foxed, else Very Good. The covers depict colonial gentlemen and gentlewomen riding in horse-drawn carriages. The Company makes "Carriages and Road Wagons of the Best Quality." Each of the eight pages depicts a Company Carriage-- the Pony Phaeton, Grand Victoria, Cabriolet, etc. Wood Brothers was at the very top of the Carriage business: it built coaches for Presidents Lincoln and Grant, among other luminaries. Not located on OCLC as of January 2020.
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Lord Chesterfield's Ears, A True Story. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire by VOLTAIRE, F. M. A. de

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Lord Chesterfield's Ears, A True Story. Translated from the French of M. de Voltaire
Author
VOLTAIRE, F. M. A. de
Seller
Savoy Books (United States)
Description
London: Printed for the Joint Stock Book, 1826. Book. 8vo, later marbled boards, gilt morocco label. Pp. 28. A translation of Les Oreilles du Compte de Chesterfield et le Chapelain Goudman, one of Voltaire's Contes Philosphiques, in which happiness comes down to healthy bowels and unfettered sexual gratification. Logically published by the radical free-love libertarian Robert Carlile and scarce. OCLC locates copies at Harvard, NYPL, UCLA, Huntington; NSTC adds LC and BL..
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23d United States Infantry. 2d Inf Div. Camp Swift Texas 16 March 1946 [caption title] by [United States Army]: [Texas Photographica]

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Title
23d United States Infantry. 2d Inf Div. Camp Swift Texas 16 March 1946 [caption title]
Author
[United States Army]: [Texas Photographica]
Seller
The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition
Very good.
Description
San Antonio: C. Ekmark, 1946. Very good.. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 52.25 inches. Very minor wear. A dramatic panoramic image capturing the 23rd Infantry Battalion of the Second Infantry Division while training at Camp Swift, Texas in the wake of the Second World War. Four large groups of soldiers are ranged across the photograph, with the officers in the middle-front of the image, all standing in front of three long rows of jeeps and military transport trucks. Camp Swift, located just west of Austin in Bastrop County, can be seen in the far background. "During World War II, [Camp Swift] reached a maximum strength of 90,000 troops and included, at different times, the 95th, 97th, and 102d Infantry divisions, the 10th Mountain Division, the 116th and 120th Tank Destroyer battalions, and the 5th Headquarters, Special Troops, of the Third Army.  Swift was the largest army training and transshipment camp in Texas. It also housed 3,865 German prisoners of war. After the war much of the site was returned to former owners. The government retained 11,700 acres as a military reservation. That land housed parts of the Texas National Guard, a medium-security federal prison, and a University of Texas cancer research center" - Handbook of Texas online. The photographer, Carl John Ekmark of San Antonio was a noted and somewhat prolific chronicler of military life throughout the Lone Star State.
Amrita - 1st Edition/1st Printing

Amrita - 1st Edition/1st Printing by Yoshimoto, Banana

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Title
Amrita - 1st Edition/1st Printing
Author
Yoshimoto, Banana
Seller
Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9780571192793
Condition
Fine in Fine dust jacket
Description
New York: Grove Press. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 1997. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 0571192793 . A handsome first edition/first printing in unread Fine condition in Fine dust-jacket. Translated from the Japanese by Russell F. Wasden; by YoshimotoAmrita is Yoshimoto’s retelling of the Hindu epic, the Mahabharata. In Amrita, the gods and goddesses of India are reimagined as young, beautiful, and flawed people struggling with love, loss, and identity. Banana is Yoshimoto’s vibrant and humorous account of growing up in Japan during the postwar period. It is the story of a young girl’s coming of age, her relationships with friends, family, and the Japanese culture she has grown up in.; 8vo .
Nothing Ever Happens
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Nothing Ever Happens by Yoshimoto, Nara

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Nothing Ever Happens
Author
Yoshimoto, Nara
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Books Tell You Why, Inc. (United States)
ISBN
9781880353257
Condition
Very Good
Description
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. Very Good. 2004. First Edition (?). 1880353253 . Very Good. Minor shelf-wear to cover. Text-block: pages are bright, crisp, and clean, with only the slightest reading-wear. ; Printed by Perceval Press for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. .
Seven Tales and Alexander

Seven Tales and Alexander by Bates, H.E.

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Title
Seven Tales and Alexander
Author
Bates, H.E.
Seller
Kenneth Mallory Bookseller. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
London: Scholartis Press, 1929. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition. 1000cc. Light offsetting to prelims, else a very good hardback in a slightly darkened and rubbed jacket. Presentation copy inscribed on the copyright page thus: 'J.R. Amphlett,/ wondering if earth had/ opened and swallowed him/ H.E. Bates.
Glasgow Tool Works, Glasgow. Marshall & Wylie manufacturers of improved patent cap welded tubes for locomotive, marine & stationary boilers &c. Price list

Glasgow Tool Works, Glasgow. Marshall & Wylie manufacturers of improved patent cap welded tubes for locomotive, marine & stationary boilers &c. Price list by Marshall & Wylie

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Glasgow Tool Works, Glasgow. Marshall & Wylie manufacturers of improved patent cap welded tubes for locomotive, marine & stationary boilers &c. Price list
Author
Marshall & Wylie
Seller
Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description
[Glasgow?]: McClure & MacDonald, 20 St. Vincent Place, n.d., 1840. Broadside, 10½" x 8¾", oval wood-engraved vignette of the factory, and noting addresses in London, Paris, New York, and San Francisco; previous folds, 1 or 2 very short tears in the margins; very good or better. Printed on thin paper. Not located.
Oliver Goldsmith Bibliographically and Biographically Considered Based on the Collection . in the Library of W.M. Elkins, Esq

Oliver Goldsmith Bibliographically and Biographically Considered Based on the Collection . in the Library of W.M. Elkins, Esq by Scott, Temple. Newton, A. Edward (introduction)

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Oliver Goldsmith Bibliographically and Biographically Considered Based on the Collection . in the Library of W.M. Elkins, Esq
Author
Scott, Temple. Newton, A. Edward (introduction)
Seller
Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
As New
Description
NY: Bowling Green Press, 1928. 1st Edition Limited. Hardcover. As New. Limited edition, #348 of 750 copies. As new, still wrapped in glassine in publsiher's plain cardboard box (top missing sides). Numbered and signed on the colophon by pressman Edward Stern.
Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things. Physiognomy, a Poem: and the Blessings of Poverty

Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things. Physiognomy, a Poem: and the Blessings of Poverty by Joseph Bartlett

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Aphorisms on Men, Manners, Principles and Things. Physiognomy, a Poem: and the Blessings of Poverty
Author
Joseph Bartlett
Seller
Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Boston: Printed by Jonathan Howe, 1823. Very Good. Boston: Printed by Jonathan Howe, 1823. Second Edition. Octavo. 148; 16 pp. + errata. Original sheep and tips over paper boards. Printed dedication to John Quincy Adams. Staining to boards, worn at edges and extremities with brief exposure and shallow loss to crown. Binding is sound. Previous owner's stamp to front pastedown, touch of spotting to interior but otherwise pages unmarked.
The Geographer's Library

The Geographer's Library by Jon Fasman

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Title
The Geographer's Library
Author
Jon Fasman
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN
9781594200380
Condition
Fine
Description
First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line: A Fine book in a Fine dust jacket with no visible flaws. SIGNED by the author on the title page. An outstanding copy of this debut bibliomystery. Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a sturdy box.
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Sunspacer by ZEBROWSKI, George

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Sunspacer
Author
ZEBROWSKI, George
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780060268503
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Harper & Row, 1984. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. First edition. Fine in fine dust jacket. A very nice copy, like new.
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The National Geographic Magazine, July 1945

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The National Geographic Magazine, July 1945
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
National Geographic Society, 1945. Very Good. The National Geographic Magazine, July 1945. Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1945. 128pp. Illustrated. 8vo. Paperback. Book condition: Very good with rubbing and bumping..

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