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The Grave. A Poem

The Grave. A Poem by Blake, William (illustrator); Robert Blair

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books
Title
The Grave. A Poem
Author
Blake, William (illustrator); Robert Blair
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
London: Printed by T. Bensley for R. H. Cromek, 1808. First edition. Near Fine. Quarto (pages 275 x 340mm): [xvi], 36, [4, prospectus]; complete with the engraved frontis of Blake, engraved title page and eleven other plates engraved by Louis Schiavonetti after illustrations by William Blake. Handsomely bound in early 20th century full calf with rules stamped in black and a blue morocco spine label. Illustrated title trimmed a little tightly, no loss to the illustration. A clean and attractive copy internally with all plates retaining their tissue guards. With the armorial bookplate of C. E. Richardson, motto: virtute aquiritus honos. Housed in a custom slipcase. A blank verse poem, The Grave was the work for which Scottish writer Robert Blair was most renowned. "In October 1805, William Blake was commissioned by the engraver and would-be publisher Robert H. Cromek to prepare forty drawings illustrating the popular "graveyard" school poem first published in 1743. In Cromek's first prospectus of November 1805, Blake is named as both the designer and engraver of fifteen designs...In a second prospectus, also from November 1805, Cromek announced that Luigi Schiavonetti would engrave twelve designs for the new edition. Blake had lost the lucrative commission to engrave his own designs; and his relationship with Cromek descended into anger and argument. In spite of their disagreement, Cromek included a portrait of Blake as a frontispiece to the volume, published in 1808. Cromek promoted the book aggressively and the illustrations to The Grave became Blake's best known work through much of the nineteenth century" (William Blake Archive). Near Fine.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]

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Title
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Author
Twain, Mark [Samuel L. Clemens]
Seller
Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good +
Description
Hartford, Conn: The American Publishing Company, 1876. 2nd Printing. Very Good +. Second printing. Original blue cloth, decoratively stamped and lettered in gilt and black, peach coated endpapers. Frontispiece and numerous wood-engraved text illustrations by True Williams and others, 4-page publisher's advertisements at end (dated Dec. 1, 1876), half-title printed on the verso of the frontispiece. A Very Good+ copy overall. Minor wear to the spine ends and extremities, some discoloration to the spine and the rear board. A contemporary owner's gift inscription on one of the early blanks (dated Feb. 22, 1877). Rear paste-down and endpapers a bit wrinkled, apparently from a dampstain. Text block clean and unaffected. One of the classic American novels, Twain's bildungsroman follows the adventures of Tom Sawyer - and his friend Huck Finn -- in St. Petersburg, Missouri. Told with Twain's characteristic and unmatchable wit and humor, it would become his best-selling book and its sequel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, is arguably the greatest American novel of all time. "Mr. Samuel Clemens has taken the boy of the Southwest for the hero of his new book... and has presented him with a fidelity to circumstance which loses no charm by being realistic in the highest degree, and which gives incomparably the best picture of life in that region as yet known to fiction" (Contemporary Atlantic Monthly Review). Very Good +.
LUMIÈRE, LOUIS & AUGUSTE. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED

LUMIÈRE, LOUIS & AUGUSTE. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED by LUMIERE BROTHERS

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LUMIÈRE, LOUIS & AUGUSTE. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED
Author
LUMIERE BROTHERS
Seller
Schulson Autographs (United States)
Description
LUMIÈRE, LOUIS & AUGUSTE. The First Film Makers. Two AUTOGRAPH LETTERS SIGNED. The Lumiere brothers are credited with making the first movie shown in December 1895 and titled, "La Sortie des ouvriers de l'usine Lumière" or "Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory." As manufacturers of photographic equipment, and interested in animating images, they developed a camera that could both animate and project images. Their camera, called the Cinématographe, gave us the name for moving pictures as well as the theaters that show them, the cinema. They apparently incorrectly judged cinema to have little future value and focused their efforts on developing a color process for photographs. In the year between these letters, 1907, the brothers launched Autochrome Lumière, their color photographic process. The recipient of the Lumiere brothers' letters was Angelo Mariani (1838-1914), a French chemist. Between 1863 and 1868, Mariani marketed a coca wine and a medicine called Vin Tonique Mariani. His advertisements claimed his products would restore health, strength, energy and vitality. The popular concoctions were awarded a Vatican gold medal and endorsed by notables of the time including Emile Zola and President Ulysses S. Grant. The Letters: Louis, 4pp on one folded 8vo sheet, "Cours Gambetta," Aug. 7, 1906. Auguste Lumiere, 12mo card stock, n.p., Nov. 18, 1908. Louis Lumiere writes a friendly personal four page letter to Mariani on printed address stationery in the summer of 1906. "I do hope you had a good trip back and that you do not suffer too much the Parisian heat. My little family stayed at Evian, the journey... is one of the most favorable for Suzanne's health, and here I am alone at home as my brother is also gone...The bustle of the factory is there, fortunately, to make me find the time shorter...." Signed, "L. Lumiere." Two years later in 1908, Auguste Lumiere thanks Mariani, " a thousand times... for your kind congratulations...." He signs, "A. Lumiere." The pair of letters is in fine condition.
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Portugal Medico ou Monarchia Medico-Lusitana, historica, practica, symbolica, ethica, e politica... Parte I. by Abreu, Joseph Francisco Antonio Ignacio Noberto Augostinho Bras luis de

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Title
Portugal Medico ou Monarchia Medico-Lusitana, historica, practica, symbolica, ethica, e politica... Parte I.
Author
Abreu, Joseph Francisco Antonio Ignacio Noberto Augostinho Bras luis de
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Coimbra: Joam Antunes, 1726. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Folio. [42], 763, [1], 16pp. Text in Portuguese. Speckled calf with gold lettering, tooling and ruling on spine (lightly rubbed at extremities). Raised bands. Title page in red and black lettering. Decorative head-, tailpieces, and initials. Head and tail of spine slightly wormed. Some rubbing on covers with moderate abbrasion on calf. Some leaves lightly browned. Blank lower outer corner of final leaves wormed (not affecting text). Minor and sporadic damp-staining along fore-edge of last pages. Only edition and all published of this wonderfully zany early 18th century attempt at a modern Portuguese Pliny! Although primarily concerned with debunking the false medical practices of his day, exposing charlatans and attacking ineffective and/or dangerous pharmaceutical compounds widely sold as medicine, this volume touches, i.e., on pygmies, eating and drinking customs, cadavers, the mechanical and liberal arts, metals, meteorology, typhoons, chiromancy and androids. Each of the twenty major sections is devoted to a single animal (man, lynx, elephant, wolf, etc..), and Abreu weaves a net of interrelation between the animal's physiology, emblematic value, the diseases it symbolizes and the cures appropriate to them. For instance, the ass opens the door to his opinions on medical ignorance. He doesn't hesitate to name colleagues he feels employ the incorrect or harmful treatments, to snipe at medical astrologers and decry the popularity of mountebanks. He himself, however, contributes a sonnet to each section, frequent notes on the ethical and moral values attached to particular disorders, a lenghty digression on magic including many incantations and a 350-line verse romance. His citations mix classical with contemporary writings, but show a particular emphasis on 17th and 18th century Portuguese physicians. Abreu's attention to the emblematic character of the physical world is quite unusual. Not in Hirsch, Waller or Krieg's "Mehr nicht Erschienen." Blake p.1; Wellcome II: 5.
L’agricoltura sperimentata ovvero Piano general di Agricoltura per uso dell’Italia nel quale s’insegna l’unico metodo di preparare le terre per avere una raccolta in ogni classe che renda un cinquanta per cento piu degli altri, e in particolare non solo per coltivare le vita, il formento, il riso, il lino ma ancora per fare le vini, articolo importantissimo trascuratto dalla magior parte, delle persone fino ad ora. Opera nella quale si discrive la maniera di coltivare ogni sorta di alberi

L’agricoltura sperimentata ovvero Piano general di Agricoltura per uso dell’Italia nel quale s’insegna l’unico metodo di preparare le terre per avere una raccolta in ogni classe che renda un cinquanta per cento piu degli altri, e in particolare non solo per coltivare le vita, il formento, il riso, il lino ma ancora per fare le vini, articolo importantissimo trascuratto dalla magior parte, delle persone fino ad ora. Opera nella quale si discrive la maniera di coltivare ogni sorta di alberi by Clementi, Africo

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L’agricoltura sperimentata ovvero Piano general di Agricoltura per uso dell’Italia nel quale s’insegna l’unico metodo di preparare le terre per avere una raccolta in ogni classe che renda un cinquanta per cento piu degli altri, e in particolare non solo per coltivare le vita, il formento, il riso, il lino ma ancora per fare le vini, articolo importantissimo trascuratto dalla magior parte, delle persone fino ad ora. Opera nella quale si discrive la maniera di coltivare ogni sorta di alberi
Author
Clementi, Africo
Seller
De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description
Venezia: Presso Antonio Graziosi, 1772. 8vo. 185 x 120 mm., [7 ¼ x 4 ¾ inches].  xvi, 312 pp.  Bound in contemporary paste-paper boards laced to the text block.  Printed on thin paper, some signatures brown with age and some foxing, but generally in good, sound condition. Africo Clementi(fl. 1550-1580) was born in Padua and was educated to become a notary, writing contracts, wills, and official government documents.  As he prospered he began to purchase fields in the outskirts of Padua and rented out his land to tenant farmers with whom he worked.  He studied the ancient writers in the field and used their insights to produce this book, which is only partly original in substance.  The title states that this is a general plan for Italian farmers which teaches agricultural “methods for preparing the land to achieve a harvest in each class that yields fifty percent more than others, and in particular not only for growing vines, wheat, rice, flax, but also for making wine; a very important subject, overlooked by most people until now. A work describing the manner of cultivating all kinds of trees. . .”  His book is arranged in seven chapters, each devoted to an aspect of farming from soil analysis, farm animals, farm equipment, and storage barns to vegetable gardens, vine growing and wine making.    “Many editions have been made of this work which, if we wish to refer back to the times in which it was written, deserves the highest praise.  Filippo Re in his work, Dizionario Ragionato di Libri d’Agricoltura (1808) writes that Africo Clemente “discusses the cultivation of many plants based on his own experiences as a farmer and that future authorities on the subject used his precepts in their own writing on the cultivation of soil and crops for consumption” (Niccoli, p. 43) Salvatore Adorno is harsher in his critique of Africo Clemente’s work, suggesting that he did not farm the land himself and used the information he gleaned from the classics and his tenants to produce the book.  In any event, this work is filled with information on early agricultural practices, and it had a significant impact on Italian farming for over three centuries.  This appears to be the final edition printed in the 18th century, originally printed in Venice, 1572.  According to Paleari Henssler this is the 10th edition.  Filippo. Re, Dizionario ragionato dei libri di agricoltura, II, Venezia 1808, pp. 132-133. Vitttorio Niccoli, Saggio Storico e Bibliografico dell’Agricoltura Italiana, p. 43. Henssler, Bibliografia Latino-Italiana di Gastromonia I. pp. 186-87.  Lord Westbury, Handlist of Italian Cookery Books, p. 48.  André Simon. Bibliotheca Gastronomica, no. 353.  Salvatore Adorno.  Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, V. 26 (1982).
A Short, but Tragical History of an Unfortunate Young Girl

A Short, but Tragical History of an Unfortunate Young Girl

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A Short, but Tragical History of an Unfortunate Young Girl
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
Great Britain: Printed at J. Pitts, 1820. Paper wraps. Remnants of paper on back cover from being removal from a scrapbook. A tale of a fifteen-year-old girl by a Gentleman of Fortune but thro' the means of a benevolent Clergyman was restored to happiness and home.
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LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANCESCO SFORZA DUKE OF MILAN. With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Italy by Urquhart Wm. Pollard

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LIFE AND TIMES OF FRANCESCO SFORZA DUKE OF MILAN. With a Preliminary Sketch of the History of Italy
Author
Urquhart Wm. Pollard
Seller
The Book Block (United States)
Description
Edinburgh & London Wm. Blackwood, 1852. Thick 8vo. (8 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches), two vols bound in one. Brownish red oasis niger with a double gilt fillet border on the covers; spine with five raised bands and detailed gilt tooling in the compartments. Slight rubbing at the top of the spine; all edges marbled; bookplate: R. Kenneth Cock. The Sforza family ruled in the second half of the fifteenth century at Milan. From their obscure origins as soldiers of fortune they established themselves as a princely house and one of the leading powers of Italy. Among those noted for their cultivation of the arts were Francesco Sforza (1401-1466) and his son Lodovico Sforza (1451-1508), both Dukes of Milan. It was Lodovico who gained further prominence through the employment of Leonardo da Vinci. A comprehensive history derived from early sources. MOROCCO BOUND TWO VOLUMES IN ONE
Theatre of the Greeks ... relating to the rise, progress, and exhibition of the drama ....

Theatre of the Greeks ... relating to the rise, progress, and exhibition of the drama .... by [Buckham, P W]

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Theatre of the Greeks ... relating to the rise, progress, and exhibition of the drama ....
Author
[Buckham, P W]
Seller
Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
Very good, bright copy.
Description
Cambridge [UK]: W P Grant, 1825. First Edition.. Original paste paper bds. .. Very good, bright copy.. 8vo, [8], [1] - 237, [1] pp. A superb early reference for the sources and scholarship pertaining to the Greek theatre.
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Almanach de Cocagne pour l'an 1921. Dédié aux vrais gourmands et aux Francs-Buveurs

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Almanach de Cocagne pour l'an 1921. Dédié aux vrais gourmands et aux Francs-Buveurs
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
Paris: Editions a la Sirène, 1921. Preinted. Soft cover. Near Fine. Printed covers in original glassine. An apparently unused copy, 12mo, 232p with text contributions by Jean Cocteau, Pierre Mac Orlan, Max Jacob, Darius Milhaud, André Salmon, Erik Satie, Jacques-Emile Blanche, Fernand Fleuret, et al. With woodcut illustrations and text decorations by Raoul Dufy, Chas Laborde, Paul Signac, André Lhote, Henri Matisse, Albert Marquet, J.E. Laboureur, Sonia Lewitzka, et al. Exemplary condition.
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BOLLETTINO DEL REALE ISTITUTO DI ARCHEOLOGIA...BOLLETTINO by BOLLETTINO DEL REALE ISTITUTO DI ARCHEOLOGIA

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BOLLETTINO DEL REALE ISTITUTO DI ARCHEOLOGIA...BOLLETTINO
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BOLLETTINO DEL REALE ISTITUTO DI ARCHEOLOGIA
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The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description
BOLLETTINO DEL REALE ISTITUTO DI ARCHEOLOGIA...BOLLETTINO BIBLIOGRAFICO. 194 Part two. Rome: Arti Grafiche, 1942. 8vo. Wrappers. 459, (3) pages. First edition. There are 6,024 entries in this bibliography for articles published during 1938-1939, concerning archeological studies, with an index; partly unopened. Covers chipped, ex-library copy, short tear on front free endpaper.
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Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine, Volume 16, #1-10

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Firsts: The Book Collector's Magazine, Volume 16, #1-10
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Ken Lopez Bookseller, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Fine
Description
Tucson: Firsts. 2006. The full year, 10 issues (no issue published in July or August). Articles on Saul Bellow, Charles Bowden, Herman Melville and Nathaniel Philbrick, Charles Portis, Robert Heinlein, Madeleine L'Engle, Nancy Drew, etc. Fine. May require added postage. Softcover. Fine.
AMERICANS: Lincoln and the Imperatives of Diversity

AMERICANS: Lincoln and the Imperatives of Diversity by Wray, Ronald

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AMERICANS: Lincoln and the Imperatives of Diversity
Author
Wray, Ronald
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Riverdale, MD: Primer Press, 2000. First Edition. String bound (each of the eight signatures secured separately) illustrated wrappers; small 8vo. Number 14 of 30 copies. Marcia Brown bound and designed the cover which is a letterpress and linocut production. Inscribed to poet Ted [Enslin] who is one of a handful thanked in the acknowledgements. Light soiling, but easily very good. A very unusual production suitable for a text of poetry, prose, and eccentric (in a good way) history.
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The Young Woman's Journal, Volume XIX (19)

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The Young Woman's Journal, Volume XIX (19)
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Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
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Very Good
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1908. Very Good. The Young Woman's Journal, Volume XIX (19). Salt Lake City, Utah: NP, 1908. 700pp. Indexed. Illustrated. 8vo. Book condition: Very good, with a very light stain to front cover and very light rubbing to extremities. Brief notation penciled on title-page..
Charlotte's Web: 60th Anniversary Edition

Charlotte's Web: 60th Anniversary Edition by White, E.B. [Elwyn Brooks]; DiCamillo, Kate

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Charlotte's Web: 60th Anniversary Edition
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White, E.B. [Elwyn Brooks]; DiCamillo, Kate
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Yesterday's Muse Books (United States)
ISBN
9780060263850
Condition
Fine
Description
New York: Harper, 2012. 60th Anniversary Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. 5x0x8. Williams, Garth. Reprint of 60th anniversary edition. Brand new from publisher. An exceptional copy. 2012 Hard Cover. 184 pp. Glossy pictorial boards, web illustration on endpapers. Includes new foreword by Kate DiCamillo, Newbery Award winning author of Because of Winn-Dixie and The Tale of Desperaux. Charlotte's Web is a children's book by acclaimed American author E.B. White. First published in 1952, it tells the story of a pig named Wilbur and his friendship with a barn spider named Charlotte. The book was illustrated by Garth Williams. Publishers Weekly listed the book as the best-selling children's paperback of all time as of 2000. Written in White's dry, low-key manner, Charlotte's Web is considered a classic of children's literature, enjoyable to adults as well as children. The description of the experience of swinging on a rope swing at the farm is an often cited example of rhythm in writing, as the pace of the sentences reflects the motion of the swing. Inspiration for the 1973 animated film and the 2006 live action film.

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