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Cato's Letters by TRENCHARD John GORDON Thomas

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Title: Cato's Letters
Author: TRENCHARD John GORDON Thomas
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1755. (AMERICAN REVOLUTION) (GORDON, Thomas) (TRENCHARD, John). Cato's Letters: Or Essays on Liberty, Civil and Religious, And other important Subjects. London: J. Walthoe, et al., 1755. Four volumes. Small octavo, 19th-century three-quarter plum calf, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, black morocco spine labels, marbled boards, endpapers and edges. $6800.1755 sixth edition of Trenchard and Gordon's famed essays, a major influence on the American Revolution""ranked with the treatises of Locke as the most authoritative statement on the nature of political liberty and above Locke as an exposition of the social sources of the threats it faced"" (Bailyn). A direct and important influence on many of the founding fathers and major writings of the American Revolution, including writers such as Franklin, Dickinson, Livingstone, John Adams and Zenger, and such seminal works as the Federalist, the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution.""Trenchard and Gordon were the most important disseminators of ideas to Americans in the pre-revolutionary generations"" (Nash, Urban Crucible, 348). They first issued their ""Cato's Letters"" in the London Journal and British Journal from November 1720 through December 1723. In these 144 essays, they developed revolutionary ideas of liberty with arguments that liberty was plagued by conspiracies of power-seekers and that executive political power and standing armies were pernicious. ""It was Trenchard and Gordon who first gave unreserved endorsement to free speech as being indispensable to 'Liberty, Property, true Religion, Arts, Sciences, Learning [and] Knowledge"" (McDonald, 47). Their view of the history of liberty led them to conclude that contemporary England was as corrupt as Rome on the eve of its decline and fall: ""a venal city, ripe for destruction, if it can only find a purchaser"" (Sallust, quoted in no. 18). The analogue of decadent Rome was embraced by the Founding Fathers and ""gave a radical new meaning to their claims,"" transforming them ""from constitutional arguments to expressions of a world regenerative creed"" (Bailyn, 138). These important and influential essays ""had a profound impact on Revolutionary ideology"" in America (Library of Congress 3922).The Cato essays ""were a classic for many Americans"" (Maier, From Resistance to Revolution, 27). Issued in colonial newspapers, they were so widely distributed, plagiarized and imitated that they ""gave rise to what might be called a 'Catonic' image, central to the political theory of the time,"" best exemplified by Washington's public displays of virtue (Bailyn, 44). They directly influenced many of the founding fathers and the important writings of the American Revolution, including Franklin's Silence Dogood, John Dickinson's Letters from a Farmer, William Livingstone's Independent Reflector, John Adam's Novanglus, John Peter Zenger's landmark defense against libel, the concept of ""power"" employed in The Federalist, and the popular vision of an agrarian republic. Their influence is also palpable in the rhetoric of conspiracy in the Declaration of Independence (Jefferson owned the 1748 edition), the restrictions on national power and definition of individual rights in the Articles of Confederation and the Constitution, as well as the desire to use the public domain to create a nation of yeoman farmers. In the course of American political development during the 18th century, Trenchard and Gordon were ""the most important spokesmen for extreme libertarianism"" (Bailyn, 35). ""In the history of political liberty as well as freedom of speech and press, no 18th-century work exerted more influence than Cato's Letters"" (Fellow, American Media History, 11). ""Sixth Edition, corrected"" stated on title pages. The first complete volume of Cato essays appeared soon after Trenchard's death in December 1723, and all of the early editions are rare. From 1721 to 1776 colonial newspapers printed Cato essays ""on over 115 occasions Pennsylvania newspapers reprinted more of Tenchard and Gordon's works than any other colonial newspapers."" Yet the essays ""were not printed in their entirety in the colonies during the 18th century Most of Trenchard and Gordon's works that were in book form were brought from Europe, specifically from London"" (Barry, Dress Rehearsal for Revolution, 27-41). ""Trenchard's articles are signed 'T,' the conjoint articles 'T and G.' Some are simply signed 'G"" (DNB). See Sowerby 2738 (1748 fifth edition). Lowndes, 392. CBEL II:662. Bookplate; small ink signature to title pages.Occasional spotting to text, expert restoration to attractive bindings. A very good copy.

Trigonometria plana, et spherica by Cavalieri, Bonaventura

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Title: Trigonometria plana, et spherica
Author: Cavalieri, Bonaventura
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Bologna: Victorio Benati, 1643.

Space Calculated in Seconds: The Philips Collection, Le Corbusier, Edgar Varese by Marc Treib

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Title: Space Calculated in Seconds: The Philips Collection, Le Corbusier, Edgar Varese
Author: Marc Treib
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Collectible; Fine
Description: Princeton University Press, 1996. 1st. Decorative Cloth. Collectible; Fine/Fine. A beautiful copy of the 1996 1st edition. Tight and Fine in a bright, Near Fine dustjacket. Tall quarto, 282 pgs., richly-illustrated thruout. Music analysis by Richard Feliciano.

Two-Up (First Edition, inscribed to fellow author Chris Offutt) by Eric Miles Williamson

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Title: Two-Up (First Edition, inscribed to fellow author Chris Offutt)
Author: Eric Miles Williamson
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
ISBN: 9781881515746
Description: Huntsville, TX: Texas Review Press, 2006. First Edition. First Edition, hardcover issue. Association copy, INSCRIBED by Williamson to fellow author Chris Offutt on the half-title page: "For Chris / In admiration of your work, and with appreciation for your friendship / Eric Miles Williamson." The author has also SIGNED the title page in the same ink. From the collection of Chris Offutt. Offutt is the author of "Kentucky Straight" and other short story collections, novels, nonfiction, and memoirs. In 1996, he was named one of the twenty Best Young American Novelists by "Granta" magazine. He has also writte n for popular television shows and national publications, has been visiting faculty at numerous institutions including the Iowa Writer's Workshop, and has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and others. Near Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket.

Sitting Here by Creeley, Robert

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Title: Sitting Here
Author: Creeley, Robert
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: University of Connecticut Library, 1974. First Edition. Broadside. Near Fine. Broadside poem. Limited to 350 copies, signed by Creeley. Near Fine. A thin band of toning at the bottom-right corner. This was printed on the occasion of Creeley reading at the university on March 28, 1974.

Conjunctio: A Graphic Grimmoire by Defenestrate-Bascule, Orryelle

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Title: Conjunctio: A Graphic Grimmoire
Author: Defenestrate-Bascule, Orryelle
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: London: Fulgur Limited, 2008. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. Limited to 640 copies in red cloth. Fine in a Fine dust jacket, unclipped (£25.00). Red cloth with silver and gold gilt lettering and designs on the spine and boards. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. The artist's book that "presents mirrored pairs of Sacred Twins and Divine Lovers from various cultural pantheons coupled on facing pages.

XXIII. Jahresbericht der Landes-Rabbinerschule für das Schuljahr 1899-1900. Vorangeht: Ein Hebräisch-Persisches Wörterbuch aus dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert by Bacher, Wilhelm

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Title: XXIII. Jahresbericht der Landes-Rabbinerschule für das Schuljahr 1899-1900. Vorangeht: Ein Hebräisch-Persisches Wörterbuch aus dem Vierzehnten Jahrhundert
Author: Bacher, Wilhelm
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: vg
Description: Budapest: Adolf Alkalay & Sohn, 1900. Hardcover. vg. 2 volumes in one: 1) Annual report of the State Rabbinic Seminary. (In German). 135pp. 2) A Hebrew-Persian Dictionary from the 14th century. (In Hebrew) 76pp. Followed by afterword and index at end: 46pp. 8vo. 1/4 cloth over black paper covered boards. Ex library copy, with stamp to inside of front board, library flap to inside of back board and "date due" attached to free rear endpaper.Minor age wear to binding. Browning throughout. In German and Hebrew. Very good condition. Wilhelm Bacher was a 19th and early 20th century Jewish scholar and liberal rabbi. He studied languages at the University of Budapest and later Breslau as well as Talmud with Samuel Löb Brill. Later he served as rabbi in Szegedin. As a scholar Bacher authored or co-authored approximately 750 works. He also contributed to the Jewish Encyclopedia.

Earth Times Vol. 1 Nos. 1-4 (Complete Run) by Mills, Stephanie [Editor]

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Title: Earth Times Vol. 1 Nos. 1-4 (Complete Run)
Author: Mills, Stephanie [Editor]
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: San Francisco: Straight Arrow Publishers, 1970. A complete run of a short-lived environmentalist publication from 1970. Articles on pollution, ecology, Native American radicalism, wolves, the Vietnam war, Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers, living in an ashram, and more. Folded tabloid format. Good+ condition with foxing, toning, and soiling. Subscription card or ad cut out of issues 1 and 2. Uncommon.

Reason In Rhyme For Little Children. One Hundred Choice Moral Rhymes; Embellished With Fifty Illustrations In Oil Colors by New York. McLoughlin Bros

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Title: Reason In Rhyme For Little Children. One Hundred Choice Moral Rhymes; Embellished With Fifty Illustrations In Oil Colors
Author: New York. McLoughlin Bros
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Orig. blue cloth front cover image on paper with gilt lettering above and below in gilt. Very good
Description: New York: McLoughlin Brothers, 1876. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. blue cloth front cover image on paper with gilt lettering above and below in gilt. Very good. Unpaginated. 17.5 x 14 cm. The supposed oil colors appear to be cromolithographs, usually with one or more images per page. Interior clean and fresh. Inscription front free endpaper datee December 25 1877.

Illustrated advertising bifolium for "Hascall's Carbon Paint

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Title: Illustrated advertising bifolium for "Hascall's Carbon Paint
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Very good to fine; creased where previously folded, one short tear to lower margin of advertisement (not affecting text or image
Description: Cleveland, Ohio: The Hascall Paint Co, 1904. Very good to fine; creased where previously folded, one short tear to lower margin of advertisement (not affecting text or image), light toning to both items.. Illustrated bifolium advertisement (11" by 8") printed in red and black for Hascall's Carbon Paint, "A scientific combination of oils and pigments possessing perfect elasticity" for "tin, iron, felt, canvas or shingle roofs, bridges, iron or steel buildings, machinery, tanks, etc." (p. [1]). Includes descriptions of the product's durability and suitability for painting different kinds of architecture black. The front page illustration depicts workers applying Hascall's Carbon Paint to a roof in the background, with a beautiful Gibson Girl-esque woman on a ladder in the foreground. Offered together with a typewritten letter on Haskell Paint Co. illustrated letterhead (11" by 8.25") with original postmarked envelope (3.75" by 6.25"), offering a trial barrel of paint to R.H. Davis & Co. of Bristow, Virginia.

Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident/The Eternity Code (SIGNED 2 Volume Set) by Eoin Colfer

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Title: Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident/The Eternity Code (SIGNED 2 Volume Set)
Author: Eoin Colfer
Seller: Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
ISBN: 9780670899630
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Two Volume Set; First UK Editions/First Printings with a "1" to the title page; Both Near Fine books in Fine dust jackets with only mild foxing to the page edges to both volumes. SIGNED by the author to the half title page in both volumes. An outstanding pair of novels, the 2nd and 3rd volumes in the Artemis Fowl series; getting uncommon in the first UK printing and signed. Not remaindered, not price-clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship securely wrapped in a sturdy box.

Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather

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Title: Sapphira and the Slave Girl
Author: Willa Cather
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated First Edition/First Printing with no mention of subsequent printings; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket, with only slight age-toning to the jacket and page edges and some mild sunning to the board edges, else fine/fine. An outstanding copy of this celebrated author's last published work; not remaindered, not price clipped ($2.50 intact), not ex-library; in a fresh Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

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Appalachia by Wright, Charles

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Title: Appalachia
Author: Wright, Charles
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN: 9780374105716
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1998. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/fine. Signed by the author on the title page.

Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series: Rip Van-Winkle

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Title: Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series: Rip Van-Winkle
Seller: Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG-: Some wear to the covers, especially around the edges and spine. Tanning and foxing to the pages.
Description: New York: McLoughlin Bro's Publishers, 1870. Softcover. VG-: Some wear to the covers, especially around the edges and spine. Tanning and foxing to the pages.. A color-illustrated softcover book. [12] pages.

PROBLEMS by Updike, John

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Title: PROBLEMS
Author: Updike, John
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9780394507057
Condition: Near fine in very good plus jacket, with very good plus slipcase.
Description: New York: Knopf, 1979. First printing. Near fine in very good plus jacket, with very good plus slipcase.. Signed limited first edition of this collection of short stories from the acclaimed writer. 8'' x 5.25''. Original full patterned stamped cloth. In matching original jacket (unpriced, as issued). In original matching slipcase. 260 pages. Limited edition, one of 350 numbered copies, this #93, signed by Updike on the colophon. Minor rubbing to slipcase. Jacket spine a bit sunned. Else clean and sound.

The Girls on the 10th Floor and Other Stories by ALLEN, Steve

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Title: The Girls on the 10th Floor and Other Stories
Author: ALLEN, Steve
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good(+)
Description: New York: Holt, 1958. hardcover. very good(+)/very good(-). 188 pages, small 8vo, light blue cloth, dust wrapper (worn). New York: Holt, (1958). Third printing. Spotted top edge, but still a very good(+) copy in a very good(-) dust wrapper. Inscribed on the front free endpaper to Jose Ferrer: "To Jose, All good wishes! Steve."

The silent Traveller in San Francisco by Yee, Chiang

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Title: The silent Traveller in San Francisco
Author: Yee, Chiang
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Description: New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1964. 1st Edition. Written and illustrated by Chiang Yee. 366p., colored and b/w illus., dj.

EMBAJADOR DE LA SALUD; Consejos a las personas que viven en las poblaciones donde no hay médico

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Title: EMBAJADOR DE LA SALUD; Consejos a las personas que viven en las poblaciones donde no hay médico
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Description: México: Riedel Ede Haen, 1930. b/w illus., color pict. wrps. Advertising pamphlet with illustrations possibly by Audifred.

"George Wells Beadle (1903-1989)." by [BEADLE, George Wells, 1903-1989] HOROWITZ, Norman.

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Title: "George Wells Beadle (1903-1989)."
Author: [BEADLE, George Wells, 1903-1989] HOROWITZ, Norman.
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Offprint from:: Journal of Genetics, vol. 68, no. 3, 1989., 1989. 8vo. 201-206 pp. Photo of Beadle. Plain wraps. Fine. Horowitz was a colleague and friend of the Nobel Prize winning geneticist, who revolutionized the scientific world with his advancement of the understanding of heredity. This short eulogy offers both a professional and personal view of the great man.

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