Secure Checkout

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Cart Totals

Promo Code:	– $0.00
Subtotal:	$17,600.00
Shipping:	$44.00
	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$17,644.00
Change Currency:

Contact

Email Address

Re-type Email Address

Shipping

Expedited shipping $91.35 4 - 6 days

Standard Shipping $44.00 7 - 14 days

All fields are required unless marked optional.

Add Shipping Note

Payment

Verified and Secured. Guaranteed.

Website Secured with 256-bit TLS Encryption

Please select your payment method from the following list:

PayPal
Credit or Debit Card
Express Wallet

Click the button to checkout with PayPal.

You will be charged $17,644.00 when completing this purchase.

Cart Totals

Subtotal:	$17,600.00
Shipping:	$44.00
:	$0.00
Donation Amount:	$0.00
Total:	$17,644.00
Change Currency:

You are about to purchase:

Archive: Wake Island Raid by WORLD WAR II

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $15.00

Details

$9,500.00

( US$)

Seller: Bauman Rare Books

Title: Archive: Wake Island Raid
Author: WORLD WAR II
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1943. (WORLD WAR II). Archive: Wake Island Raid maps, photographs and documents. [Near Wake Island]: Intelligence Center Pacific Ocean Areas, October 5-6, 1943. Sixteen maps, photographs and documents; maps range in size from 8 by 8 inches to 18 by 21-3/4 inches; photographs range from 6-1/4 by 8 inches to 18 by 9-1/4 inches. $9500.Superb archive of rarely seen map and photographs used in planning and documenting the October 5, 1943 raid on Wake Island, which was taken by the Japanese only weeks after the Pearl Harbor attack.Wake Island, a U.S. airbase located approximately 2200 miles west of Pearl Harbor, was captured by the Japanese in late December, 1941. The island remained under Japanese control until the garrison there surrendered on September 7, 1945. In October 1943, a U.S. task force conducted a two-day air raid on the island. The Japanese commander, Shigematsu Sakaibara, convinced the raid was the beginning of an attempt to retake the island, marched 98 American civilian prisoners of war to a remote corner of the island and executed them. (Following the war, Sakaibara was tried and executed for war crimes.) Of particular interest is a large map on thick stock, folded into quarters and reinforced with tape on the verso, bearing copious pencil annotations documenting the second day of air raids on the island, recording various points in the action from the initial takeoff from the carrier at ""0515"" through the squadron's departure around ""0745."" The pilot carefully draws the route of two bombing runs, the first against the runways on the main island of Wake, and the second targeting the barracks and ammunition storage on nearby Peale Island. The pilot noted the direction of anti-aircraft fire, positions of guns, as well as the wind and the general weather conditions: ""Cumulus @ 2500 strong vertical development Squalls to and from island."" The pilot recorded damage sighted, including ""Red flame black smoke 0710"" coming from an underground storage area adjacent to Runway A. On his second run he observed ""Black smoke 0706-0715still going strong at 0725"" near the barracks on adjacent Peale Island. The archive also features four large, highly detailed reconnaissance photographs of Wake island together with a large body of smaller maps, all used in the planning of the October raid. Also of interest is a mimeographed document titled ""U.S.S. Yorktown Air Department Plan of the Day, Tuesday, 5 October, 1943"" which details the schedule of the first day of operations beginning at ""0245"" and ending prior to sunset at ""1645,"" noting the planned launchings and landings of seven major sorties against Wake. Several of the items are stamped ""VT-5 Air Intelligence""; VT-5 was a torpedo bomber squadron stationed on the Yorktown during the war. All items apparently from the collection of Lt. H.T. Reynolds of torpedo bomber Squadron VT-5, stationed aboard the U.S.S. Yorktown. One of the photographs, of an Avenger in flight over Wake Island, is captioned ""Lt. Reynolds, U.S.S. Yorktown, 1943.""Typical folds and other wear consistent with use, though generally very well preserved, in excellent condition overall. A superb collection of original materials used in the planning and subsequent reports on this historic attack.

De computo, vel loquela per gestum digitorum [and] De ratione unciarum. In Hoc in volumine haec continentur M. Val. Probus de notis Roma.. by Bede, Venerable

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $7.00

Details

$3,750.00

( US$)

Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc.

Title: De computo, vel loquela per gestum digitorum [and] De ratione unciarum. In Hoc in volumine haec continentur M. Val. Probus de notis Roma..
Author: Bede, Venerable
Seller: Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description: Venice: in aedibus Ioannis Tacuini Tridinensis, 1525. [Bede, the Venerable (672/73 - 735).] De computo, vel loquela per gestum digitorum [and] De ratione unciarum. In Hoc in volumine haec continentur M. Val. Probus de notis Roma. ex codice manuscript castigatior . . . , ed. Giovanni Tacuino (Venice: G. Tacuino, 1525), ff. LV - LVII. Whole volume, 4to. [4], LXXIX [i.e., LXXXI], [1]ff. Title in red and black. Full-page woodcut of a sibyl within an architectural setting, signed "b. M." in the block (probably Benedetto Montagna), a few woodcut initials. 211 x 153 mm. Modern vellum. Fine. Probably the Earliest Printings of Bede's accounts of finger-reckoning and duodecimal fractions. Bede's "De computo, vel loquela per gestum digitorum" (On calculating and speaking with the fingers) and "De ratione unciarum" (On calculating duodecimal fractions) form part of the introduction to his treatise De temporum ratione (On the reckoning of time), written around 725 A.D. The editio princeps of De temporum ratione was published by Sichardus in 1529, four years after the present work. Portions of De temporum ratione appeared in print as early as 1505, but these do not appear to have included the section on finger-reckoning. Smith, in his Rara arithmetica, states that the 1522 edition of Johannes Aventinus's Abacus atque vetustissima, veterum latinorum per digitos manusque numerandi contains a description of Bede's finger-reckoning; however, we think this may be an error, since we have not been able to find any record of this edition in OCLC or the Karlsruhe Virtual Catalogue. Smith himself described only the 1532 edition of Aventinus's work (see Rara arithmetica, pp. 136-138). Bede's two disquisitions are contained in a collection of works on Latin abbreviations, symbols, weights, measures and inscriptions edited by Giovanni Tacuino. The collection is devoted primarily to works on deciphering the abbreviations used in classical-era stone or bronze inscriptions, a subject of great interest to humanistic scholars eager to discover more about the ancient world. Included in the collection is the editio princeps of Petrus Diaconus' De notus literarum more Romano liber (which Tacuino had discovered), along with a new edition of M. Valerius Probus' De notus Romanorum and several transcriptions of Roman inscriptions in quasi-facsimile. The typographic design of the title is reminiscent of an ancient text in stone. Finger-reckoning, a method of computation in which numbers are represented by finger and hand gestures, had been practiced since ancient times and was commonly used during the Middle Ages; however, there are very few written accounts of the technique dating from these times, probably because it was used primarily by "common or illiterate people" (Menninger, p. 201) who passed its methods on orally. Bede's account of the practice, although not the first, was the best and most influential. His purpose was to provide a useful method for calculating the Christian calendar, most importantly the date of Easter and other movable feasts. Bede listed finger- and hand symbols for the numerals 1 through 9999; these "roughly work like a placement system. The middle, ring, and little fingers of the left hand denote the digits; the thumb and index fingers on the left hand express the tens; the thumb and index finger on the right hand the hundreds; and the middle, ring and little fingers the thousands . . . The informal manner in which Bede explains how to flex the fingers and form gestures seems to retain traces of oral instruction" (Kusukawa, pp. 28-29). Prior to Europe's adoption of Arabic numerals, finger-reckoning provided a rudimentary method of place-value calculation. "Neither Bede nor any of his contemporaries in Western Europe knew about place value or zero, but finger reckoning enabled them to proceed as if they did. Finger joints supplied place value-one joint 10s, another 100s and so on-and zero was indicated by the normal relaxed position of the fingers-by nothing, so to speak. The system was even capable of simple computation" (Crosby, The Measure of Reality: Quantification in Western Europe, 1250-1600, p. 42). Bede's explanation of the Roman system of duodecimal fractions, which follows the description of finger-reckoning, clarifies the terminology and provides a list of synonyms for different types of fractions. Kusukawa, "A manual computer for reckoning time," in Sherman, Writing on Hands: Memory and Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, pp. 28-34. Menninger, Number Words and Number Symbols: A Cultural History of Numbers, pp. 201-8. .

Little Dorrit (20 Parts in 19) With Autograph Notes By Dickens Bibliographer Thomas Hatton, Laid in by Dickens, Charles

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $4.00

Details

$3,500.00

( US$)

Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc.

Title: Little Dorrit (20 Parts in 19) With Autograph Notes By Dickens Bibliographer Thomas Hatton, Laid in
Author: Dickens, Charles
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description: London (December 1855-June 1857): Bradbury and Evans. First Edition. Original Wraps. H. K. Browne. First edition in the original parts; 20 parts in 19. Bound in the original blue/green printed wrappers - all wrappers are correct and ALL the ads called for by Hatton & Cleaver are present. First issue of the text ("Rigaud" for "Blandois" in part XV). Plates are very good to fine; plates of parts IX, XV and XVI are lightly tanned at edges, not affecting illustrations; all other plates are very good to fine. Tissue guards are in place. Very faint subscriber name on upper margin of parts I, II, XII and XV front wrappers; light soiling to a few wrappers. Spines expertly renewed on several parts. Part XIX/XX is partly UNOPENED. A rare slip is laid in, by the publisher, or possibly by booksellers, with the following message: "All ye who wish to read this part of Little Dorrit, - Ye surely will not grudge to pay a penny for it; Three days ye'll get to read, as well as one to send it, And if ye damage 't aught, 'tis hop'd ye will refund it." This slip is one of 6 found in the Thomas Hatton collection. [Together with] autograph notes by Dickens bibliographer Thomas Hatton, relating to "Dr. De Jongh's Cod Liver Oil" ad in parts X, XII, XIV, XVI and XVIII, is laid in. Internally clean and bright. An outstanding set, with everything, including a pedigree - it is from the famed Hatton & Cleaver collection. Armorial bookplate. Housed in a quarter-leather slipcase, with chemise. Provenance: The Hatton and Cleaver collection, The Heritage Bookshop, Charles Parkhurst Books, Inc. Hatton & Cleaver, pp. 307-330.

RUBAIYAT DE OMAR KHAAYYAM; Versión de Eduardo Hay. Tercera Edición

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $10.00

Details

$600.00

( US$)

Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC

Title: RUBAIYAT DE OMAR KHAAYYAM; Versión de Eduardo Hay. Tercera Edición
Seller: Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description: México, 1938. color plates, cloth endpapers, printed on Japanese rice paper, green leather binding (not over boards), w/embossed gold lettering. Handsome edition of the famous Persian verses printed in Mexico. Color offset chromolithographic illustrations by Roberto Montenegro. Third Edition. LIMITED EDITION OF 1000.

Marbling: A History and a Bibliography by Easton, Phoebe Jane

7 to 14 days for delivery

Standard Shipping: $8.00

Details

$250.00

( US$)

Seller: Thorn Books

Title: Marbling: A History and a Bibliography
Author: Easton, Phoebe Jane
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Los Angeles: Dawsons Book Shop, 1983. Hardcover. Fine. 6 marbled paper samples tipped-in, plus a sample inset into the front boards. Crash canvas binding. A fine copy, without dj., as issued. The first of the modern landmark books on marbled papers, with a significant bibliography. The samples comprise Suminagashi, Beninagashi, Borjeson, Cockerell, Hatip Ebru and Ebru. One of 850 numbered copies. The inset on the upper board is in the stone pattern in light green with dark green, yellow and orange veining. We have handled a number of copies of this book and have never seen two copies with the inset in the same pattern. .

Secure Checkout