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Elementale Geometricum, ex Euclidis Geometria... by Voegelin, Johannes

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Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA

Title: Elementale Geometricum, ex Euclidis Geometria...
Author: Voegelin, Johannes
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Paris: Apud Christianum Wechelum, 1534 Illustrated with woodcut printer's device to title page and final page, and numerous woodcut diagrams throughout text. Presumed third edition (first published in 1528). Bound in full modern brown calf for Maclehose, with board margins double-ruled in blind, spine with four raised bands, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt and other edges stained green, and marbled endpapers. Fine, with some contemporary annotations to margins. Overall, an exceptionally well-preserved copy. Elementale Geometricum is a shortened version of Euclid's seminal 13-book treatise on geometry and mathematics, Elements. Voegelin's version played an important role in disseminating Euclid's principles of geometry to students in the 16th century. Johannes Voegelin (ca. 1500 - 1549) was a teacher of mathematics and astronomy who taught at St. Stephen's Public School in Vienna and the University of Vienna. In addition to Elementale Geometrium he published an annotated edition of Theodosius' Sphaerics (1529) and some works on astronomy. Euclid (ca. 300 BC) was a Greek mathematician whose greatest work was Elements. For the treatise, Euclid collected the findings of great mathematicians before him and brilliantly organized them into a cohesive system. In The Development of Mathematics (1940), Eric Temple Bell writes, "With the completion of Euclid's Elements... For the first time in history masses of isolated discoveries were unified and correlated by a single guided principle, that of rigid deduction from explicitly stated assumptions." Elements is one of the most influential books in human history, helping shape more than two decades of thought and progress. . Third Edition. Hard Cover. Fine.

A Scrapbook of Postal Telegraph - Cable Company Material by Fields, Bryant W.

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Title: A Scrapbook of Postal Telegraph - Cable Company Material
Author: Fields, Bryant W.
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Various: Various, 1900. Very good. A scrapbook of photographs, drawings, newspaper clippings, letters, telegrams, company documents, etc., 1890s - 1940s; 11 1/2 x 10 1/2; pp. [74], mostly recto only; sheets housed in a contemporary, tri-ring binder; many of the photographs subtitled in manuscript; some of the sheets with small cuts at perforations; occasional spotting and edge-wear; overall in very good condition.Assembled by a long-term employee and later, executive officer, in Kansas City, Missouri and San Francisco, of the Postal Telegraph - Cable Company, the scrapbook contained an interesting glimpse into the history of the only viable competitor to Western Union in the United States at the end of the 19th century. The company was founded in the 1880s by Irish-American industrialist John William Mackay (1831 - 1902), who had amassed a vast fortune in silver mining in the Comstock Lode. Bryant Fields, the compiler of the current scrapbook, had begun working for the Mackay venture in its early years at the age of just 14 (there is a studio photograph of him at the start of his employment). Some of the assembled images included storefronts of the Postal Telegraph Company aross several states, a 1926 hole-digger and pole-setter machinery and operators across the desolate Arizona desert on the Los Angeles - Texas line, a submarine cable repair outfit, employees inside the Salt Lake City station, and many more. There were also personal photographs of trips of the Fields Family. Other items included several manuscript- and typed company lists of authorized positions and salaries, telegrams, clipped newspaper articles and cartoons, and so on.

Struggles And Triumphs; or, Forty Years' Recollections by Barnum, P.T.

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Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC

Title: Struggles And Triumphs; or, Forty Years' Recollections
Author: Barnum, P.T.
Seller: The First Edition Rare Books, LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Buffalo: The Courier Company, 1879. Author's Edition. Cloth. Very good. The Author's Edition of Struggles And Triumphs: or, Forty Years' Recollections, signed by P.T. Barnum.. Octavo, [2].xii, [2], 17-324pp. Brown pebbled cloth, title stamped in gilt on the spine, wear at head of the spine, cloth chipped along the spine. Stated "Author's Edition" on the copyright page. Complete with frontispiece portrait of Barnum, and 32 additional engraved plates. Clean text throughout, expected toning to leaves. This copy is inscribed in another hand, with the following inscription: "Presented to Geo O. Milhouse / ___ of Providence Prep. / with the compliments of the author / May 1, 1879." Signed by P.T. Barnum in the author's hand below the inscription. The first edition of Struggles and Triumphs was published by J.B. Burr & Company of Hartford in 1869. Phineas Taylor Barnum (1810-1891) was an American entertainer, businessman, and politician best known for founding the Barnum & Bailey Circus. A master of publicity and spectacle, he popularized hoaxes, curiosities, and grand exhibitions, including the promotion of General Tom Thumb and the Swedish singer Jenny Lind. Barnum also served as mayor of Bridgeport, Connecticut. He authored several books, including The Life of P.T. Barnum, Written by Himself (1855), an autobiography detailing his experiences, Struggles and Triumphs: Forty Years' Recollections of P.T. Barnum (1869), and The Art of Money Getting (1880), offering business advice. His legacy remains influential in entertainment and marketing.

Ministerio de Hacienda. ... "El Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella, Sabed: Que Usando de la Autorizacion Que Me Concede el Decreto del Congreso General de 20 de Septiembre Ultimo, He Tenido a Bien Decretar Lo Siguiente"... [caption title and part of text] by [Mexico]. [Treasury]

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Title: Ministerio de Hacienda. ... "El Presidente Interino de la Republica Mexicana, a los Habitantes de Ella, Sabed: Que Usando de la Autorizacion Que Me Concede el Decreto del Congreso General de 20 de Septiembre Ultimo, He Tenido a Bien Decretar Lo Siguiente"... [caption title and part of text]
Author: [Mexico]. [Treasury]
Seller: McBride Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: Mexico City: April 17, 1837. Very good.. 10pp. Folio. Modern blue cloth, front board gilt. Contents clean. An extensive Mexican decree issued the year after the Texas Revolution dealing with the organization and operation of the national Treasury Department. Its main innovation was the installation of federal heads of each department's branch of the Ministeria de Hacienda to administer taxes to and distributions from the national treasury. They also assumed duties regarding the oversight of payments for military contracts, upkeep, and the like. This important order was a part of Santa Anna's drive to centralize power in Mexico under the federal government after he led the revision of the Mexican constitution in 1835. Its emphasis on military preparation also clearly seems a reaction to the loss of Texas a year prior. Scarce, we locate only one copy, at Berkeley.

Elegies and Celebrations. (Preface by Robert Duncan) by WILLIAMS, Jonathan

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Title: Elegies and Celebrations. (Preface by Robert Duncan)
Author: WILLIAMS, Jonathan
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Fine copy
Description: Highlands: Jonathan Williams, 1962. First edition. One of 750 copies. Jargon 13b. Jaffe A22. Presentation copy, inscribed by JW: "for Kenneth [Rexroth] with love from Jonathan, Highlands 1963. Fine copy. SISKIND, Aaron. 8vo, illustrated with photographs by Aaron Siskind, photographic wrappers by JW, glassine dust jacket. Fine copy.

Reflection on the Atomic Bomb. Volume I of the Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Edited by Robert Bartlett Haas by Stein, Gertrude

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Title: Reflection on the Atomic Bomb. Volume I of the Previously Uncollected Writings of Gertrude Stein. Edited by Robert Bartlett Haas
Author: Stein, Gertrude
Seller: Michael R. Thompson, Booksellers, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description: Los Angeles: Black Sparrow Press, 1973 One of fifty copies handbound by Earle Grey. Each copy of the special edition contained a copy of the first printing of "Literally True" by Gertrude Stein, published privately in 1947. Octavo. Fine in dust jacket. Spine of jacket a bit browned.

Hydriotaphia: Urne-Buriall, or A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk [Urn Burial] by [Bruce Rogers] Browne, Sir Thomas

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Title: Hydriotaphia: Urne-Buriall, or A Discourse of the Sepulchrall Urnes lately found in Norfolk [Urn Burial]
Author: [Bruce Rogers] Browne, Sir Thomas
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1907: Riverside Press / Houghton Mifflin. Hardcover. Very Good. Rogers, Bruce. Full red leather binding with extensive gilt decoration to both boards, pages untrimmed, #239 of 385 copies. As with many copies, the spine ends are worn--loss to bottom 1/4" of spine and less to top of spine; small chip toward middle of spine. Slipcase is splitting along top edge. Zamarano Club bookplate inside front cover.

A Praed Street Dossier by Derleth, August

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Title: A Praed Street Dossier
Author: Derleth, August
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Sauk City, Wisconsin: Mycroft & Moran, 1968. First Edition. Near Fine/About Fine. Frank Utpatel. Publisher's black cloth, dust jacket with $3.00 on fron flap; owner name and date on ffep. One of 2904 copies printed.

Larry Rivers by [RIVERS, Larry] Helen A. HARRISON

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Title: Larry Rivers
Author: [RIVERS, Larry] Helen A. HARRISON
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9780064333184
Description: New York: Artnews Books / Icon Editions / Harper & Row, 1984. Square 4to (10 1/4 x 10 1/4 inches). 142 pp. Richly illustrated with 60 full-color plates and 40 black-and-white reproductions. Original cloth; pictorial dust jacket. A fine copy with slightest shelf-wear and toning to jacket. FIRST EDITION, SIGNED BY RIVERS on the half-title. Includes a chronology, extensive bibliography, and index.

Plays: Winesburg and Others by Anderson, Sherwood

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Title: Plays: Winesburg and Others
Author: Anderson, Sherwood
Seller: Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1937. First edition. Hardcover. 242pp. Octavo [21 cm]. Brown cloth covered boards with a blue ink stamped title on the spine. Spine gently bumped at head and tail, pages mildly tanned. Very Good. Very Good dust jacket, showing subtle age-toning and edgewear. One small hole worn through the dust jacket at the front fold. From the dust jacket: "During the six decades of an active life Sherwood Anderson has established himself as one of America's outstanding literary figures and dean of commentators on the American scene.

Peter and Polly in Spring by LUCIA, Rose. Principal of the Primary School, Montpelier, Vermont

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Title: Peter and Polly in Spring
Author: LUCIA, Rose. Principal of the Primary School, Montpelier, Vermont
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Description: New York: American Book Company, 1915. [JUVENILE] [ILLUSTRATED]. 12mo (7 ½" x 5 ¼"); 176pp; glazed tan cloth over board, lettering in black, vignette of two children with a dog on the front; ownership dated "Christmas 1926" on ffep; fp, bird vignette on title page; half-tone and tinted half-tone illustrations throughout text; some speckled color loss to boards and light soiling, very good plus. One of the charming, easy-to-read children's books in the Peter and Polly series. Illustrated throughout highlighting the dress and activities of children in the first quarter of the 19th century, but relatable to today.

Aperture 7:3 by WHITE, Minor (editor) Alfred Monner, Ruth Bernhard

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Title: Aperture 7:3
Author: WHITE, Minor (editor) Alfred Monner, Ruth Bernhard
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Rochester, NY: Aperture, 1959. First edition. Softcover. Includes portfolios by Alfred Monner as well as one with 10 images by Ruth Bernhard. Also features a photograph by Imogen Cunningham and Aaron Siskind and book reviews of three seminal monographs - "Observations" by Richard Avedon and Truman Capote, "Photographs" by Aaron Siskind and "Les Americains" by Robert Frank. A near fine copy in stapled wrappers with some minor wear.

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