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Munchausen at the Pole; or the Surprising and Wonderful Adventures of a Voyage of Discovery...By the renowned Capt. Munchausen

Munchausen at the Pole; or the Surprising and Wonderful Adventures of a Voyage of Discovery...By the renowned Capt. Munchausen by Munchausen, Baron

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Title
Munchausen at the Pole; or the Surprising and Wonderful Adventures of a Voyage of Discovery...By the renowned Capt. Munchausen
Author
Munchausen, Baron
Seller
Thorn Books (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
London and Dublin: J. Johnston; R. Milliken, 1819. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 12mo. Original drab boards, gray paper spine, uncut. (10), 164pp. plus 4pp publisher's catalogue. Half-title, folding hand-colored etched frontispiece and 4 hand-colored plates, as called for. Boards well worn, text has spotting and soiling, frontispiece folds have been reinforced from behind,ink name and an erasure on the half title. Only a good copy. Surprisingly rare satire on Arctic exploration. Only a few copies noted in library holdings. Another edition was printed in 1824. .
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Gallerie der Menschen: Ein Bilderbuch für die Jugend zur Erweiterung ihrer Kenntnisse und Befriedigung ihrer Wissbegierde. Zweiter Theil by [ALBRECHT, Erdmann Hannibal -- SEIDEL, Karl August Gottlieb (1754-1822)]

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Gallerie der Menschen: Ein Bilderbuch für die Jugend zur Erweiterung ihrer Kenntnisse und Befriedigung ihrer Wissbegierde. Zweiter Theil
Author
[ALBRECHT, Erdmann Hannibal -- SEIDEL, Karl August Gottlieb (1754-1822)]
Seller
Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
Leipzig: Friedrich August Leo, 1799. Hardcover. Very Good. Small 4to (140 x 106mm). [iv], 91pp. 29 finely hand-colored engraved plates fully captioned depicting costume and peoples of the world. Period boards backed in cloth; (some light outer wear, early ownership signature in ink on top edge of front free-endpaper and title page, light, marginal thumbsoiling of plates; else contents are clean; very good). Children’s book of Continental costumes printed in Leipzig at the turn of the 19th century. A rare illustrated work first published in 1796, plentiful in delicately hand-colored engravings of native peoples from around the world. This, the second part, was probably written solely by Karl Seidel, a teacher at the Tochterschule (Public Girls School) in Dessau. This “Gallery of People” was designed as a picture book for young children, not yet in their early childhood, to expand their knowledge and satisfy their curiosity about faraway lands. The first part (not included here), included nations, professions and items that were sorted in alphabetical order from Abbess, Admiral, Amazon and Armenians to Dwarf, Gypsy and Wizard. The lives portrayed are wide ranging and include simpletons, butchers, slaves, gardeners and fools. This second part organizes the peoples (usually a man, woman and native, all with appropriate props) by continents: Asians, Africans, Americans and Indians, and Europeans. The illustrations for Native American peoples are of high interest, not only for their expert work, but for the range of tribes and geography, even the Acadian peoples of Canada are represented. This type of book departs from the common ABC books as the pictures and text have a social studies meaning. Rarely found, only two copies located at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and at Princeton’s Cotsen Library.
WISDOM, A POEM

WISDOM, A POEM by [Wilkinson, Edward]

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Title
WISDOM, A POEM
Author
[Wilkinson, Edward]
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description
Haverhill: Peter Edes, 1794. 12mo. 16 pp. Stitched as issued. Light dusting, occasional foxing, Very Good. In a modern folding case, with gilt-lettered morocco spine label. A poem by an English surgeon and Quaker, first printed in London in 1777. Evans 28086. ESTC 15420 [3- AAS, UC Berkeley, Haverhill Pub. Lib.].
Last Tales

Last Tales by Dinesen, Isak (pseudonym, Karen Blixen)

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Last Tales
Author
Dinesen, Isak (pseudonym, Karen Blixen)
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Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
New York: Random House, 1957. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing, octavo size, 352 pp. Isak Dinesen (nom de plume, Baroness Karen Christenze von Blixen-Finecke of Rungstedlund, nee Dinesen, 1885-1962) is likely best-remembered today for "Out of Africa", a fictionalized recounting of the life she led with her husband operating a coffee plantation, and for her short story, "Babette's Feast", both of which were adapted into Academy Award-winning films. This collection includes stories written as early as the 1930s. While several of the stories garnered critical acclaim, the work as a whole was described by "Time" magazine as "a group of Gothic fiction" (n.b., per Wiki). The publisher, on the dust jacket flap, describes it as one in which Dinesen "again casts her magical spell in prose and...offers twelve tales in which fantasy and reality are harmoniously intermingled." ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full grey cloth over boards, gilt lettering stamped onto the front board and spine, black decoration and publisher's device on the spine, top edge stained red; octavo size (8 3/8" by 5 1/8"), pagination: [i-vi] [1-3] 4-341, [4 blank pp.] [346, author bio]. The dust jacket carries the original price of $4.00, design on front panel and spine of a tree in black and grey upon a red ground with red and white lettering, listing of the tales with short summaries on both flaps, back panel with author bio. ___CONDITION: Near fine, with clean boards, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; some very light sunning to the board edges, front hinge slightly tender (but not cracked), rear hinge strong. The unclipped dust jacket also near fine, entire, with only minor overall edgewear (a bit more noticeable at the head and tail of the spine), spine very lightly sunned. Overall a near fine to fine example. ___CITATION: First edition, first printing per Zempel with "First Printing" stated on the copyright page. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.
The Jews of Moslem Spain. Translated from the Hebrew
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The Jews of Moslem Spain. Translated from the Hebrew by Ashtor, Eliyahu

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Title
The Jews of Moslem Spain. Translated from the Hebrew
Author
Ashtor, Eliyahu
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN
9780827600171
Condition
Very good +
Description
Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society of America, 1984. First English language edition. Hardcover. Very good +. Octavo. 3 vols. (6), 469, (1); (4), 381, (1); (4), 310pp. Indices. Blue dust jackets, spines lettered in white, over blue cloth, spines stamped in silver. Illustrated with several city maps and ground plans of Jewish communities in Moslem Spain. Vol. I with a faded stain on fore-edge of text black, and d.j. spine a bit toned. Still a very good + set.
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Masdasnan-Ernährungs-Lehre by Ammannn, Frieda (ed.)

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Masdasnan-Ernährungs-Lehre
Author
Ammannn, Frieda (ed.)
Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition
g
Description
Leipzig: Mazdaznan, 1925. 41. und 42. Auflage [41st and 42nd edition]. Hardcover. g. 8vo. 162pp. Red cloth with yellow illustration and lettering. Illustrated title page and chapter headings. Work on nutrition and food. Minor age wear to binding and browning to pages. In German. Good condition.
The Nouvelle Cuisine of Jean & Pierre Troisgros [cover title: The New French Cooking...]

The Nouvelle Cuisine of Jean & Pierre Troisgros [cover title: The New French Cooking...] by Troisgros, Jean & Pierre; Roberta Wolfe Smoler (translator)

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The Nouvelle Cuisine of Jean & Pierre Troisgros [cover title: The New French Cooking...]
Author
Troisgros, Jean & Pierre; Roberta Wolfe Smoler (translator)
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc, 1978. Octavo (24 x 17 cm.), 254 pages. Illustrated with color photographs by Didier Blanchat. FIRST EDITION IN ENGLISH. Issued the previous year in French under the title Cuisiniers a Roanne by Robert Laffont. Recipient of the Food & Wine Gold Medal. The first cookbook from the giants of nouvelle cuisine, owner's of their eponymous restaurant in Roanne and, during their younger years, both students of the great Fernand Point. A bit of light age-toning to the front panel of the publisher's white cloth, otherwise near fine. In an clipped dust jacket; closed tear to rear panel, otherwise near fine. Inscribed on the half-title, "Jean Troisgros, Le Cuisinier de Roanne"
HOLIDAY FOR EDITH AND THE BEARS

HOLIDAY FOR EDITH AND THE BEARS by Wright, Dare

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HOLIDAY FOR EDITH AND THE BEARS
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Wright, Dare
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description
First edition, 1958, of the sequel to "The Lonely Doll" printed the year before and second in the series. An unusual take on girlhood; even with "modern" sensibilities well-advanced from the 1950s when Dare created the characters and story of Edith and her Teddy Bears, some now perhaps regard it as "edgy". Photographed on Okracoke Island in the Outer Banks of North Carolina. A very nice copy in price-clipped pictorial dustjacket front and back that replicates the photograph on the covers of the book. With a charming bookplate for a young girl on the front pastedown.
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by SERVICE, Robert W.

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Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
Author
SERVICE, Robert W.
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Near fine
Description
New York: Barse & Hopkins, Publishers, 1916. Cloth. Near fine. 12mo; 192pp; gilt-stamped title on green ribbed cloth over board; ownership on ffep; light shelf wear to edges; near fine. Dedication To the Memory of My Brother, Lieutenant Albert Service, Canadian Infantry, Killed in Action, France, August, 1916. Collection of poetry written during WWI by Robert Service (1874-1958), a British-Canadian writer, nicknamed the "Bard of the Yukon." He wrote this volume in Paris while recuperating from WWI, in which he was awarded 3 medals for his war service.

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