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Shijuhattana [48 Shelves]

Shijuhattana [48 Shelves] by (SHELVES)

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Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc.
Title
Shijuhattana [48 Shelves]
Author
(SHELVES)
Seller
Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description
48 full-page woodcuts. 25 folding leaves. Large 8vo, orig. wrappers (wrappers rather tired, occasional light staining), new stitching. N.p.: 1658. First edition and very rare; WorldCat does not locate a copy. This is a very early and highly specialized monograph describing the design and construction of 48 different kinds of shelves, each with a specific purpose. They include staggered shelves; shelves to display art objects; shelves with pillars; ornamental shelves; shelves built to hold heavy loads; shelves which can be used as desks; a shelf for a bird cage; shelves to display fans; shelves to suggest cherry blossoms, plum blossoms, and pine, willow and maple trees; folding shelves; shelves with sliding doors; shelves for baskets; shelves tall enough for a two story house; symmetrical pairs of shelves; shelves for religious and ceremonial objects; shelves to store kimono; etc., etc. The colophon leaf states that the designs and techniques of construction had hitherto been passed on by word-of-mouth and practical experience. Throughout this book, a contemporary annotator has furnished measurements for each shelf design, with the occasional comment. Very good copy of an extremely rare book. Minor worming.
The Communion of Labour. A Second Lecture on the Social Employments of Women

The Communion of Labour. A Second Lecture on the Social Employments of Women by [WOMEN'S HISTORY] [GREAT BRITAIN] JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna]

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Title
The Communion of Labour. A Second Lecture on the Social Employments of Women
Author
[WOMEN'S HISTORY] [GREAT BRITAIN] JAMESON, Mrs. [Anna]
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, & Roberts, 1856. First Edition. 12mo (17cm). Flexible red cloth boards, lettered in gilt; [i-viii],[1]-156,24pp. Binding spotted and a bit rubbed at edges, but still a pretty copy, clean, tight and unmarked; with bookplate of Arthur Hoe to front pastedown. A late but important work by the noted Anglo-Irish feminist, art historian, and traveller. The first portion of the lecture is taken up with a discussion of English laws regarding ownership of property after marriage, which Jameson characterizes as "cruel" and "unjust." The remainder of the work seeks to answer the question "whether there be not a possibility of [woman] sharing practically in the responsibilities of social as well as domestic life?" (p.3). Jameson goes on to enumerate a group of occupations suited to women in the fields of welfare and relief, including hospital-work, prison reform, reformatories, penitentiaries, and workhouses. Perhaps most interesting is a lengthy section devoted to the education and training of women, which begins with the proposition: "There is no adequate provision for the practical education of the middle and lower classes of girls in this country...[and] no one in power thinks it worth while to treat this part of educational statics with any particular attention" (p.109). Jameson goes on to suggest a number of rather radical reforms to the British educational system, including co-educational schools, vocational training of young women for "active, and social, and responsible avocations;" and the creation of colleges for working women. Infrequent in trade and, though not strictly rare, surprisingly (for a work by a well-known British author) narrowly held in American institutions - OCLC noting fewer than fifteen copies in North America, of which several would appear to be either circulating copies or mis-catalogued electronic resources.
The Victoria Woodhull Reader

The Victoria Woodhull Reader by WOODHULL, Victoria (text); STERN, Madeline B. (editor)

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
The Victoria Woodhull Reader
Author
WOODHULL, Victoria (text); STERN, Madeline B. (editor)
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Weston, MA: M & S Press, 1974. First Edition. Octavo (23.75cm); navy blue cloth, with titles stamped in gilt on spine; [vi],[640]pp; illus. A Fine, unread copy. A substantial compilation of works by Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), a noted suffragist and social reformer who in 1872, had been the first woman to run for President of the United States. The volume has a lengthy introduction by Madeline B. Stern, partner in the firm of Leona Rostenberg Rare Books in New York City. Contents include works on sexual relations, eugenics, political theory, women's suffrage, women in political office, internationalism, and economics.
[Drop title] The Politics of Touch

[Drop title] The Politics of Touch by [WOMEN] HENLEY, Nancy M.

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Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books
Title
[Drop title] The Politics of Touch
Author
[WOMEN] HENLEY, Nancy M.
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Baltimore, 1970. First Edition. Quarto (28cm.); side-staplebound self-wrappers; 8pp. printed from typescript. Near Fine condition. "The act of touching, when nonreciprocal, is, I believe, an even more subtle physical threat used to remind persons of their status, and is particularly used by men against women" (p.2). A paper presented at the 1970 meeting of the American Psychological Association "as part of a panel discussion of 'Social Psychology and Women's Liberation.'" The Pittsburgh-based women's liberation association Know, Inc., would reprint this paper the same year. OCLC locates three copies of this edition as of April, 2019, at Central Connecticut, Northwestern, and U. Michigan.
Why? An Anarchist Bulletin. Vol. 5, no. 7 (December, 1946)

Why? An Anarchist Bulletin. Vol. 5, no. 7 (December, 1946) by [ANARCHIST PERIODICALS] YOUNG, William

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Title
Why? An Anarchist Bulletin. Vol. 5, no. 7 (December, 1946)
Author
[ANARCHIST PERIODICALS] YOUNG, William
Seller
Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
New York: Why, 1946. First Edition. Quarto. Pictorial self-wrappers; 16pp; illus. Minimal wear; Very Good or better. Single issue in original wrappers; includes a substantial extract from B. Traven's The Death Ship, "Kurt from Memmel." Uncommon anarchist periodical.
A Ball Player's Career, Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscences of Adrian C. Anson, Late Manager and Captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club

A Ball Player's Career, Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscences of Adrian C. Anson, Late Manager and Captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club by ANSON, Adrian C.

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Title
A Ball Player's Career, Being the Personal Experiences and Reminiscences of Adrian C. Anson, Late Manager and Captain of the Chicago Base Ball Club
Author
ANSON, Adrian C.
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good +
Description
Chicago: Era Publishing Co, 1900. Cloth over board. Very good +. [SPORTS] [AUTOBIOGRAPHY]. 8vo; 339 + [3], [i], ii-viii + [16]pp advertisements for Chicago area businesses; pictorial green cloth over board, vignette of a ball player and bat with mitt on front, lettered spine; brown flowered endpapers; ownership address sticker to half-title; portrait frontispiece of the author plus 27 b&w glazed plates; scuff to board edges, light shelf-wear, abrasion to ffep with loss of ep pattern & small closed tear to edge; very good plus. Adrian Constantine Anson (1852-1922) was an early superstar major league baseball player, beginning his career in May 1872 with the Rockford Forest Citys [Illinois] and ending in October 1897 with the Chicago Colts. The Chicago Colts were a founding member of the National League and became the Chicago Cubs in 1903. Though a baseball phenom, Anson was also a known racist and one of the players forcing racial segregation of the game. Black and white photographic illustrations of A.C. Anson's Billiard Room and Bowling Alleys founded in his retirement, and many portraits of the teams and their international travels. The text is followed by an Appendix of "Some Newspaper Comments" and interesting advertisements from Chicago merchants including major and local railroad routes, mineral water, the Keeley Brewing Company, banks, etc. A treasure for the die-hard Chicago Cubs baseball fan and those interested in the history of the National League.
Untrodden English Ways, With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour, and Illustrations from Drawings by H.C. Colby and from Photographs by the Author

Untrodden English Ways, With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour, and Illustrations from Drawings by H.C. Colby and from Photographs by the Author by SHELLEY, Henry C.

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Title
Untrodden English Ways, With Four Full-Page Plates in Colour, and Illustrations from Drawings by H.C. Colby and from Photographs by the Author
Author
SHELLEY, Henry C.
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
Boston: Litte, Brown, and Company, 1908. Cloth. Near fine. H.C. COLBY. H.C. COLBY, illustrator. Colonial Press, Boston. Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co. 8vo; [xiii], ix-xv, [i] [2], 341pp; gilt stamped pictorial on blue cloth over board, gilt lettering on spine; top edge gilt; fore-edge and bottom untrimmed; owner's bookplate on front pastedown; tri-chromatic half-tone photographic illustration frontispiece with tissue guard plus 3 additional color plates; b&w vignette on title page; 32 b&w photographic illustrated plates; small line drawings in text; small mark to spine, small damp stain to fore-edge ffep; near fine. A tour around England illustrated with wonderful black and white photographic illustrations reproduced by half-tone show scenes in and around the country. A bookplate reading "Ex Libris Henry Hornblower" designed and signed by Edmund H. Garrett 1911 is affixed to the front pastedown. The plate pictures a pastoral scene with a river, and a decorative border features shells, pinecones, and books. Henry Hornblower (1863-1941) was an investment banker and lifelong resident of Massachusetts. Edmund Garret was an American book-plate designer, illustrator, painter, and author.
Rusty's Travels, A Little Dog's Part in a Vacation

Rusty's Travels, A Little Dog's Part in a Vacation by ARNOLD, Nason H.

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Title
Rusty's Travels, A Little Dog's Part in a Vacation
Author
ARNOLD, Nason H.
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
Boston: Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co, 1931. Cloth. Near fine. Griswold TYNG. 12mo; 272pp; black pictorial of a dog at a shoreline on mustard buckram; gift inscription to ffep dated "Xmas 1933"; b&w frontispiece; dog portrait to title page; b&w illustrations in text; laid in pencil sketch of Rusty; light sunning of spine, age-toning of eps; near fine. Located in only 5 WorldCat libraries. The only printing of this sequel to the author's book, Rusty, the Adventures of a Little Dog, published in 1930.
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. by VERNE, Jules.

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Title
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.
Author
VERNE, Jules.
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Franklin Center:: Franklin Library,. Near Fine. 1978. Hardcover. Translated from the French by Mendor T. Brunetti. Limited edition ("The Collector's Library of the World's Best-Loved Books"). Octavo, fully bound in blue leather with gilt lettering and design, raised bands along the spine, all edges gilt, silk moire endpapers, sewn-in ribbon bookmark. About fine.; 472 pages .
Abies douglasii (Douglas Fir)

Abies douglasii (Douglas Fir) by [RAVENSCROFT, Edward James [1816-1890] - James BLACK

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Title
Abies douglasii (Douglas Fir)
Author
[RAVENSCROFT, Edward James [1816-1890] - James BLACK
Seller
Donald Heald Rare Books (United States)
Description
Edinburgh & London, 1873. Hand-coloured lithograph. Sheet size: 21 1/2 x 15 3/4 inches. A very fine plate from Ravenscroft's 'The Pinetum Britannicum. A Descriptive Account of Hardy Coniferous Trees' Ravenscroft's work is the third (in order of publication) of the three great coniferous iconographies of the nineteenth century, following Bedford and Lambert. The very fine plates fall into two categories: botanical studies of details of the needles and fruit of the individual trees, and landscape studies of examples of individual trees in their natural habitat. This plate is an outstanding example of the former group, here drawn by James Black and lithographed by Robert Black. Cf. Nissen BBI 1588; cf. Great Flower Books (1990) p.127; cf. Stafleu & Cowan 8685.
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Il rinascimento parla ebraico. by Busi, Giulia; Silvana Greco, eds.

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Title
Il rinascimento parla ebraico.
Author
Busi, Giulia; Silvana Greco, eds.
Seller
Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio (United States)
ISBN
9788836642694
Condition
Fine
Description
Milano and Ferrara: Silvana editoriale and il Museo Nazionale di Ebraismo Italiano, 2019. Original edition. Fine. 24 cm; 304 pages, illustrated. Stiff wraps. With contributions from scholars on a variety of topics related to Jewish life in Renaissance Italy. From the introduction: "There is no Italian Renaissance without Judaism, and we cannot imagine Italian Judaism without the Renaissance." Generously illustrated. Text in Italian.
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Ludwig Spohr: Ein Vortrag by [SPOHR]. Schletterer, H. M.

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Title
Ludwig Spohr: Ein Vortrag
Author
[SPOHR]. Schletterer, H. M.
Seller
J & J Lubrano Music Antiquarians LLC (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1881. Hardcover. Good. Octavo. Boards, with original upper wrapper bound in. Pp. 127-162; xxxix ("Verzeichnis der Werke Spohr's") pp. Hinges partially split. Some browning. Sammlung Musikalischer Vorträge 29.

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