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Vogelbilder aus fernen Zonen. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Papageien by REICHENOW, Anton

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Title: Vogelbilder aus fernen Zonen. Abbildungen und Beschreibungen der Papageien
Author: REICHENOW, Anton
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Kassel: Theodor Fischer, 1883. Complete with contents and list of species, notes, supplements, corrections, and 33 chromolithograph plates finished by hand after Gustav Mützel. Publisher’s cloth, blind-stamped and gilt, rebacked with the original spine laid down, covers worn around edges; text lightly stained with some offsetting from tissue guards and a few paper tears repaired with tape, plates are mostly clean and bright. From the James Dolan collection. Inside the volume are 2 separate plates: 1. A colored specimen plate of Ara Gosse signed by Joseph Smit (1836-1929), the famous Dutch zoological illustrator; and 2. A hand-colored original drawing of a female moustached parakeet with written notes describing the physical attributes, colors and markings, possibly by Reichenow or Mutzel or Smit. First edition of the first and most comprehensive classification of parrots by origin and species from throughout the world, with brilliant illustrations by Mützel. The plates depict various parrots in their natural surroundings organized by family. The work is especially known for the accuracy of the drawing as well as for the monumental presentation of the 258 species of parrots. Reichenow (1847-1941) was the most prominent German ornithologist of his day, being an expert of African birds and parrots. He worked at the Humboldt Museum from 1874 to 1921 and was editor of the Journal für Ornithologie from 1894 to 1921. A number of birds are named after him, including Reichenow's woodpecker. Mützel (1839 –1893) was a German painter and draftsman specializing in animal subjects. Born in Berlin, he studied at the School of Beaux-Arts there. Among his best-known works are the illustrations for Brehm’s Lives of the Animals.

Über entwickelungsgeschiche der Thiere. Beobachtung und Reflexion by BAER, Karl Ernst von

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Title: Über entwickelungsgeschiche der Thiere. Beobachtung und Reflexion
Author: BAER, Karl Ernst von
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Königsberg: Bei den Gebrüdern Bornträger, 1828. FIRST EDITION. A PRESENTATION COPY. With 3 folding handcoloured engravings. Original wrappers bound into contemporary pasteboards, rebacked. Presentation copy inscribed in French to M. Valenciennes; gift bookplate of the Boston Society of Natural History, by the bequest of its first president, Benjamin D. Greene, M.D., dated 1863. FIRST EDITION of the first part of von Baer's classic of embryology, complete in itself. The author here treats the development of the chicken in the egg. He describes vertebrate embryonic development from conception to birth, effectively ending any belief in the preformation theory of embryonic development. According to Singer, von Baer's four important advances in embryology include "the discovery of the mammalian ovum; the proposition known as the germ-layer-theory; the law of corresponding stages in the development of the embryo; and the discovery of the notochord." Presentation copies of von Baer's works are notoriously rare. The second and third parts to this series were published in 1837 and 1888. "Über entwickelungsgeschiche was never finished – the second volume appeared in incomplete form nine years after the first, in response to the demands ofthesubscribers; and the conclusion, also incomplete, was not issued until 1888, twelve years after Baer's death and fifty years after it was written" (Norman).

Misura della Colonna di Cristo Nro Signore by [METRIC RELIC]

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Title: Misura della Colonna di Cristo Nro Signore
Author: [METRIC RELIC]
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: [Rome]: Santa Prassede, 19th century. Linen ribbon cut to 69 x 4 cm, printed in black ink on one side with the words “MISURA DELLA COLONNA DI CRISTO NRO SIGNORE ALLA QUALE FU FLAGELLATO”, and, in much smaller letters “SI VENERA PRESSO LI MMCI VALLOMBROSANI DI S. PRASSEDE DI ROMA”. On each end is a small reproduction of the column surrounded by foliage. In excellent condition. Rare and ephemeral “metric relic.” Cut to the exact height of the column that Christ was lashed to during his flagellation, these ribbons would have been available to pilgrims visiting the Basilica of Saint Praxedes in Rome, where the supposed column is housed. The column was translated to the basilica in 1222 from Jerusalem, and it remains there today. Metric relics, items made to match specific dimensions of holy things, offered a contemplative alternative to physical remains. Medieval and early modern Christians placed great emphasis on divine measurements and meditated on them as a means of imagining the people and places from the Biblical narrative. Visualizing the distances, heights, depths, and lengths of sacred elements lent realism and credibility to literary descriptions, and those unable to undertake an actual trip to the Holy Land could instead go on a mental pilgrimage. Tourists making spiritual journeys to Rome enjoyed purchasing small relics like this to take back to their homes as mementos of their journeys. Cheap and easy to produce, metric relics could be made in large quantities without fear of inauthenticity, and they still provided a source of income for the church. Unrecorded in OCLC, OPAC, and KVK; Barbier de Montault, “Les Mesures de devotion” in Revue de l’art chrétien 32(1881) 369-370; Van Asperen “’As if they had phyicalled visited the holy places’” in The Imagined and Real Jerusalem in Art and Architecture 202-203; Hagen, “Heavenly Agent and Divine Disclosure” in Tracing the Jerusalem Code Volume 1 381-382.

Questions of Travel by Bishop, Elizabeth

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Title: Questions of Travel
Author: Bishop, Elizabeth
Seller: Burnside Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Like New
Description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965. First Edition. Hardcover. Like New. First edition. Inscribed on title page "For Maggie Haford [?]- Best wishes, & kindness of Carly [?] - [signed] Elizabeth Bishop Seattle, January 1966." 95 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with red, silver and green spine lettering. Housed in a custom slipcase. A little wear at tips and a thin small line of rubbing to paste down but basically Fine in a very Near Fine unclipped and unfaded dust jacket. A major collection of Bishop's poems, rarely found signed.

Pay Tribute to the Memory of Martin Luther King Jr. Saturday April 27th. March Against the War, Racism, Poverty, Repression and the Draft...Rally at San Francisco Civic Center...[caption title and first few lines of text] by [African Americana]: [King, Martin Luther Jr.]: [Vietnam War]

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Title: Pay Tribute to the Memory of Martin Luther King Jr. Saturday April 27th. March Against the War, Racism, Poverty, Repression and the Draft...Rally at San Francisco Civic Center...[caption title and first few lines of text]
Author: [African Americana]: [King, Martin Luther Jr.]: [Vietnam War]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: San Francisco, 1968. Very good.. Broadsheet on blue paper, 13.5 x 8.5 inches. Slight discoloration along top and bottom edges, minor edge wear, a few soft creases, old horizontal folds. An exceedingly rare broadsheet advertising a multi-faceted public march and rally against the Vietnam War and "racism, poverty and repression," which took place in San Francisco, California about three weeks after the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. The organizers of the event, the April 27 Mobilization Committee, framed the day's activities around Dr. King's opposition to the Vietnam War; the broadside calls for the protesters to "pay tribute to the memory" of Dr. King, his portrait is printed at the top of the front side of the broadsheet, and the entirety of the verso prints excerpts of an April 4, 1967 speech by Dr. King railing against the Vietnam War. Particularly interesting is the eclectic list of speakers who participated in the day's events on April 27, 1968, which included Muhammad Ali, Vanessa Redgrave, Jeanette Rankin, Bobby Seale, Arnold True, and Sidney Roger. Ali was in the midst of his appeal after his conviction for draft evasion the previous year, and was a natural candidate to speak against the injustices of the Vietnam War. Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panthers, was four months away from participating in protests at the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention, after which he was arrested and tried as part of the sham Chicago Eight fiasco. The diversity of the speakers echoes the quantity of different issues represented by the current broadsheet: Civil Rights, the Vietnam War, the recent assassination of Dr. King, Muhammad Ali's legal fight against the war, Bobby Seale's controversial role with the Bay Area Black Panthers, women's rights, and the role of the American military. We could locate no other copies of this broadsheet in auction history or OCLC.

The Rape of the Lock, An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos by [Aubrey Beardsley] Pope, Alexander

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Title: The Rape of the Lock, An Heroi-Comical Poem in Five Cantos
Author: [Aubrey Beardsley] Pope, Alexander
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Leonard Smithers, 1896. Hardcover. Very Good. Beardsley, Aubrey. Designed by Aubrey Beardsley with his initials to front cover. Hardcover with beveled boards, full blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine and gilt design to front cover, 9-3/8" tall, 48 pp., nine illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley. Wear to spine ends with 1/8" tear to bottom of front joint, moderate wear to tips, moderate rubbing to gilt on front cover, foxing to text pages, especially to first several pages. Aubrey Beardsley's cover shows a clear distinction between his skills in illustration and design. The illustrations in this work are intricate, highly detailed, and free flowing. In contrast, the cover is symmetrical and formal, and quite within the poster art style which was in its heyday in the 1890s. In both styles, Beardsley succeeds; although the florid erotic drawings might be better known, this cover is a brilliant example of the poster art design.

Emperor's Pearl by Van Gulik

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Seller: Thorn Books

Title: Emperor's Pearl
Author: Van Gulik
Seller: Thorn Books (United States)
Condition: Near fine
Description: London: Heinemann, 1963. First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Near fine/Near fine. Octavo, 206; pp., plus [2] postscript. With eight illustrations drawn by the author in the Chinese style. Publisher's blue textured paper over boards lettered in gilt to spine, sketch-map to endpapers, Light foxing to the endpapers, Hong King bookseller stamp on the rear free endpaper margin. Two ownership signatures on the upper margin of the front pastedown, else a near fine copy. The pictorial dust-wrapper designed by the author is not price-clipped. It has the barest trace of wear along the top else fine. .

The British Species of Angiocarpous Lichens, Elucidated by Their Sporidia by Leighton, W.A.

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Title: The British Species of Angiocarpous Lichens, Elucidated by Their Sporidia
Author: Leighton, W.A.
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: London: Ray Society, 1851. First edition. THE MICROSCOPY OF SPORES IN CLASSIFICATION OF LICHENS WITH 30 SPECTACULAR COLOR PLATES--BY CLERGYMAN/BOTANIST SCHOOLMATE OF DARWIN WHO SUBSCRIBED TO THE BOOK. 9 inches tall hardcover, green cloth binding, blindstamped design to covers, gilt initials of Ray Society to cover, gilt title to spine, [vi], 101 pp, 30 handcolored lithographic plates, 18 pp List of Subscribers (including "Darwin, C. esq. F.R.S., Down, Kent"), 3 pp Report of the Council of the Ray Society, Professor Henslow in the Chair. Spine faded, binding tight, armorial bookplate of Frederick DuCane Godman to front paste-down, scattered light foxing to text pages, plates bright and unmarked, very good in custom archival mylar cover. FROM THE INTRODUCTION: "Every botanist is fully aware how valuable and avail. able a character is afforded by the form and external markings of the seeds m very many species of Phsenogamous plants; the correct determination of the species frequently depending exclusively thereupon. Analogous reasoning leads us to the conclusion, that the form and septa of the sporidia in Cryptogamic plants would present similarly useful characters. Investigation proves the correctness of this conclusion. Owing, however, to the minuteness of the parts, the delicacy and care required in the manipulation, and the employment of high magnifyin# powers, these organs, in the family of the Lichens at least, do not seem to have hitherto received that attention which their importance really demands. ... The dissections were made under a large and powerful microscope of the best construction by Messrs. Powell and Lealand, opticians, of London." WILLIAM ALLPORT LEIGHTON (1805 – 1889) was an English Church of England clergyman and botanist. He went to school at the Unitarian Manse on Claremont Hill, Shrewsbury, with Charles Darwin, who first encouraged him to be interested in plants. On the death of his father he abandoned the study of the law in favor of the church. He matriculated at St John's College, Cambridge, and graduated B.A. in 1833. Having been a pupil of John Stevens Henslow, Leighton on his return to his native town deferred ordination in order to draw up a flora of Shropshire. In 1843 he was ordained deacon and priest, and took on clerical duties in Shrewsbury until 1848, when he resigned his curacy at St Giles' Church, and thenceforward occupied himself entirely with botany. In 1841, he brought out his Flora of Shropshire, the etchings to illustrate some of the genera being his own. He then began working on the cryptogams, and in 1851 the Ray Society published his Angiocarpous Lichens elucidated by their Sporidia (offered here). From that date onward Leighton published widely in the literature on lichens, producing as his major work Lichen Flora of Great Britain in 1871. Leighton suffered from deteriorating eyesight, and soon after 1879 gave up his studies; he donated his collection to the national herbarium at Kew Gardens. PROVENANCE: FREDERICK DUCANE GODMAN (1834 –1919) was an English lepidopterist, entomologist and ornithologist. He was one of the twenty founding members of the British Ornithologists' Union. Godman joined Trinity College, Cambridge in 1853, where he met Alfred Newton and Osbert Salvin. In 1876 Godman and Salvin decided to work on a project to document the fauna and flora of Central America. This monumental work Biologia Centrali-Americana (1879–1915) was to grow into a 63 volume encyclopaedia on the natural history of Central America. Godman and Salvin also collected numerous bird and butterfly specimens. These were presented to the British Museum in 1885, including nearly 520,000 bird skins alone. Godman was a fellow of the Zoological Society of London, and member of its council from 1902. He was elected to the Royal Society in 1882, received a gold medal from the Linnean Society in 1918, and was made a trustee of the British Museum. THE RAY SOCIETY was founded in 1844, largely on the initiative of George Johnston and named after the naturalist John Ray (1627–1705). It is based at the Natural History Museum, London, and is a registered charity under English law. The Ray Society's publications are concerned with natural history, and have special but not exclusive reference to British flora and fauna. They include original monographs on particular groups and topics, facsimiles of historically important volumes and translations of existing works. During Charles Darwin's lifetime, the Ray Society published not only Darwin's two volumes on living barnacles (1851 and 1854) but also the work of many of the foremost British naturalists: Thomas Henry Huxley, William Crawford Williamson, John Blackwall, Albert Günther, and James Scott Bowerbank.

Gatherings; The History and Activities of the Emerson Street YMCA Branch by [AFRICAN AMERICAN] [CIVIL RIGHTS] WEST, Stan (Editor)

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Title: Gatherings; The History and Activities of the Emerson Street YMCA Branch
Author: [AFRICAN AMERICAN] [CIVIL RIGHTS] WEST, Stan (Editor)
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: Evanston, Illinois: Shorefront Press, 2004. First Edition. Quarto. 25.5cm. Publisher's limp card wraps titled in black. [ix] 77pp. Minimal wear, internally clean, a near fine copy. An illustrated history of the Evanston YMCA branch that became an historic informal hub and gathering place for the African American population from its inception in 1914 to its eventual closing in 1969. Shorefront was a publishing and archival endeavor built from the ground up by, and for, the African American community of Evanston, with the aim of preserving and celebrating their unique local history. A seemingly almost unknown publication, with only 7 copies recorded in US institutions, and a brave attempt to preserve community history.

REGIONS WITH NO PROPER NAMES by Allen, Dick

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Title: REGIONS WITH NO PROPER NAMES
Author: Allen, Dick
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: St Martin's Press, 1975. First Edition. Blue cloth in dust jacket; 8vo. 81 pp. Poet's second collection; he was a professor at The University of Bridgeport. Fine in a fine dust jacket.

An Arrangement Of The Psalms, Hymns, And Spiritual Songs Of The Rev. Isaac Watts, D. D. , to Which Are Added Indexes, Very Much Enlarged and Improved. by James M. Mitchell by Winchell, James M. (Morse, Jeddiah)

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Title: An Arrangement Of The Psalms, Hymns, And Spiritual Songs Of The Rev. Isaac Watts, D. D. , to Which Are Added Indexes, Very Much Enlarged and Improved. by James M. Mitchell
Author: Winchell, James M. (Morse, Jeddiah)
Seller: Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition: VG-
Description: Boston: Lincoln & Edmands and James Loring, 1820. Second Edition. Full Calf. VG-. . Adapted to the Use of Congregational and Presbyterian Worhip by Jedidiah Morse, D. D, Uncommon second edition in original or early full calf, red leathwer label. Some lightstaining to edges not travering to text block. Leather worn, but firmly bound. A solid, unspohisticated copy.

Philip Taaffe: Works on Paper by TAAFFE, Philip (artist); Peter Lamborn WILSON

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Title: Philip Taaffe: Works on Paper
Author: TAAFFE, Philip (artist); Peter Lamborn WILSON
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9781935263043
Condition: A clean copy
Description: New York: Gagosian Gallery, 2010. First edition. A clean copy. 12.5 x 10.5 inches. 145 pages. Profusely illustrated in color. Original cloth; pictorial wraparound band. Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Gagosian Gallery, New York in 2010.

The Colonel's Daughter by ALDINGTON, Richard

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Title: The Colonel's Daughter
Author: ALDINGTON, Richard
Seller: Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition: very good
Description: London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. Limited. hardcover. very good. Tall 8vo, green cloth, uncut; spine faded. London: Chatto & Windus, 1931. Limited First Edition. One of 210 signed copies

The Limits of Intervention (An Inside Account of How the Johnson Policy of Escalation in Vietnam Was Reversed). by HOOPES, Townsend.

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Title: The Limits of Intervention (An Inside Account of How the Johnson Policy of Escalation in Vietnam Was Reversed).
Author: HOOPES, Townsend.
Seller: Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Description: NY:: David Mckay Company,. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1969. Hardcover. Third printing. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear and age toning) dust jacket. .

UFOs Above the Law; True Encounters with Law Enforcement by Soriano, Frank; Bouck, James

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Title: UFOs Above the Law; True Encounters with Law Enforcement
Author: Soriano, Frank; Bouck, James
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780764339202
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Atglen: Schiffer Publishing Ltd, 2011. First Edition. Paperback. Near Fine. Near Fine. Wraps faintly bumped. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of UFO reports from law enforcement and government officials.

FIRE LYRIC, POEMS by Zarin, Cynthia

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Title: FIRE LYRIC, POEMS
Author: Zarin, Cynthia
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. stiff paper wrappers. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers. viii, 71, (3) pages. First edition, uncorrected proof. Fine.

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