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Poetical Works by BROWNING Elizabeth Barrett

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Title: Poetical Works
Author: BROWNING Elizabeth Barrett
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1890. BROWNING, Elizabeth Barrett. Poetical Works. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1890. Six volumes. Small octavo, contemporary half red morocco, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spines, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $2800.Handsomely bound, illustrated six-volume set of Elizabeth Barrett Browning's poems, including her Sonnets from the Portuguese.Collected works of one of the most romantic figures of the 19th century, featuring her novel in verse Aurora Leigh as well as the beloved Sonnets from the Portuguese, along with her essays ""Some Account of the Greek Christian Poets"" and ""The Book of the Poets."" Five of the volumes open with engraved frontispiece portraits of Elizabeth Barrett Browning at different stages of her life; other engravings picture her sitting-room at Casa Guidi, Coxhoe Hall, Hope End and her tomb, and volume IV includes a facsimile of the manuscript of ""May's Love."" This edition contains a prefatory note by Robert Browning (1887), Elizabeth Browning's original dedication and preface to the first collected edition of her poems (1844) and both a general index and an index of first lines. Barnes E181.1. Minimal rubbing to extremities; pages gently age-toned. A beautiful set.

Disputatio de generatione et corruptione by ARISTOTLE

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Title: Disputatio de generatione et corruptione
Author: ARISTOTLE
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1787. (ARISTOTLE). Disputatio de Generatione et Corruptione. No place, circa 1700. Quarto, contemporary limp vellum. $1200.Attractive late 17th or early 18th-century manuscript of Aristotelian commentary in Latin, featuring decorative inked headers and illustrations.This manuscript volume contains over 300 pages of painstakingly inked notes engaging with Aristotle's treatise De generatione et corruptione, covering ""Rarefactione et condensatione,"" ""Actione et passione,"" ""De mixtione,"" etc. On the last page is a list of Aristotelian quotescaptioned ""Quaedam scitu digna,"" or ""Some things worth knowing""attributed to poet and scholar Vespasiano Crispolti of the Accademia degli Insensati of Perugia, 1587. Each main section opens with a calligraphed header, some in two colors; also present are two marginal graphs, one section header with a colored thistle decoration, and one with a remarkable drawing of a royal stag facing off against a cockatrice-like mythical beast. Paper watermarked with a bird over three hills, in a circle. First section (approximately 60 pages) waterstained; a few scattered spots of staining elsewhere, contents overall clean. A unique, intriguing manuscript.

Fisher King by POWELL Anthony

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Title: Fisher King
Author: POWELL Anthony
Seller: Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description: 1986. First Edition. Signed. POWELL, Anthony. The Fisher King. London: Heinemann, (1986). Octavo, original blue paper boards, original dust jacket. $1100.First edition of Powell's skillful modern interpretation of an Arthurian character, signed on the title page by him and with four autograph text corrections.Drawing from Arthurian legend in which the Fisher King is a maimed and sexually damaged ruler of a barren country, Anthony Powell develops his modern interpretation on a cruise ship and transfers the Fisher King's more memorable traits onto the character of crippled war hero and photographer Saul Henchman. With his characteristic humanity and refinement, Powell exposes the contradiction and even comedy underpinning the Arthurian myth. ""An elegant modern version of an ancient myth"" (The Guardian). This copy is signed by Powell and also features four text corrections as follows: p. 45, l. 8, a strike through the ""t"" in ""not"" and the marginal notation ""w/""; p. 103, l. 19, ""must have been"" crossed out, with the insertion ""later proved it""; p. 176, l. 22, the ""ly"" in ""butly"" crossed out, with the insertion ""by""; and p. 208, l. 18, correction to ""Weber"" with notation ""N/ Webern/."" A fine signed copy, rare with autograph corrections.

COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. IN FOUR BOOKS by BLACKSTONE, William

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Title: COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. IN FOUR BOOKS
Author: BLACKSTONE, William
Seller: Boston Book Company (United States)
Description: 1794. BLACKSTONE, Sir William. COMMENTARIES ON THE LAWS OF ENGLAND. IN FOUR BOOKS. Dublin: Printed for L. White, William Jones, and John Rice, 1794. 12th edition, with additions by John Williams. var. pp. 12mo., full calf with gilt red and black morocco spine labels. Calf worn, a few cracked joints. Foxing to frontispiece and title page, Vol. I; light foxing to preliminaries and end matter in the others, with occasional foxing to the text. Gilt labels bright. A sound, appealing little set. There is a small neat contemporary ink ownership to the title pages.

Doctor Warrick's Daughters by Davis, Rebecca Harding

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Title: Doctor Warrick's Daughters
Author: Davis, Rebecca Harding
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Harper & Brothers, 1896. First edition. Near Fine. Complete with fifteen plates (including frontispiece). [6], 301, [2, ads] pp. Publisher's olive cloth stamped in black and gilt. Spine toned. Contemporary ink ownership inscription (Gertrude Gilson) to upper flyleaf. A clean, Near Fine copy with just a bit of marginal toning and some dustsoiling to top edge. Rebecca Blaine Harding Davis (1831 - 1910), often labeled a "pioneer American realist," is best remembered for her story "Life in the Iron Mills," which was published in the Atlantic Monthly in 1861. "Life in the Iron Mills" is "Davis's best-known, most frequently reprinted, and most artistically successful work. This tragic story of the...'iron puddler' (furnace tender) Hugh Wolfe and his cousin Deb's botched effort to free him from a stifling life of heavy labor and poverty has become emblematic of American realism and naturalism" (ANB). Davis was inspired by her hometown of Wheeling, Virginia (now West Virginia), a chaotic border area wracked by the Civil War, and by the daily stresses of working-class existence: she sought to portray the "commonplace...vulgar American life" in her writing, sometimes at odds with the requests of her publishers to produce more optimistic stories. She was a prolific writer, producing ten books and hundreds of contributions to periodicals including the Atlantic Monthly, Scribner's, Lippincott's, Harper's Monthly, The Saturday Evening Post, and particularly the New York Tribune, which regularly published her articles and editorials for twenty years. Doctor Warrick's Daughters explores the dynamics between the Warrick sisters and their mother Sarah while Dr. Warrick is away working as a surgeon for the Union Army. Upon their father's return, the sisters are expected to enter society - a challenge after the family falls into isolation and genteel poverty over the course of the war. Davis portrays the small-town Pennsylvania setting with a regionalist's eye and examines the quotidian effects of the Civil War, class and poverty, and "feminist questions of women's role (or 'work' in Davis's parlance) in modern industrial society" (ANB). Not in Wright. Near Fine.

The Renal Lesion in Bright's Disease by Addis, Thomas and Oliver, Jean

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Title: The Renal Lesion in Bright's Disease
Author: Addis, Thomas and Oliver, Jean
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1931. First edition. SCARCE RICHLY ILLUSTRATED COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE BY TWO GIANTS OF 20TH CENTURY NEPHROLOGY. 10 3/4 inches tall hardcover, publisher's green cloth binding with blind-stamped publisher's mark on the front and gilt lettering on spine, large fold-out chart of individual cases in pocket on front paste-down, perforated library stamp to bottom of title page and top first paage, xi + 628 pp. 170 full page plates (2 with color), 21 text illustrations. Corners bumped, light wear to spine ends, library numbers bottom of spine, browning to page edges and endpapers. Binding tight, text and plates clean and unmarked, very good minus. THOMAS ADDIS (1881 - 1949) was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and studied medicine in his native Edinburgh, at the Institute of Pathology of Berlin Charité, and in Heidelberg. He graduated in medicine from the University of Edinburgh in 1905, and in 1908 earned a license to practice medicine. In 1911, he took up a professorship at Stanford University, where he remained until his death in 1949. His investigations into kidney function led to the birth of modern renal physiology. Addis developed a means of measuring the number of red blood cells, white blood cells, epithelial cells, casts, and the protein content in urine specimens, a test used in the diagnosis and management of kidney disease. Towards the end of his life Addis began to study laboratory rats as a model of proteinuria, and was among the first people to note the presence of rodent major urinary proteins. JEAN REDMAN OLIVER (1889-1976) earned his AB and MD from Stanford University, where he remained on faculty from 1914 to 1929, interrupted in 1916-1919 by studies at the Rockefeller Institute. From 1929 to 1950, he was Head of the Department of Pathology at Long Island College of Medicine, then moved to the State University of New York Medical College where he remained until retiring as professor emeritus 1955. This was followed by 17 years of continued productivity, as he established his laboratory at the Overlook Hospital in Summit, New Jersey, and was joined by his brilliant assistant, Muriel MacDowell, who mastered the microdissection techniques. They outgrew their quarters at Overlook Hospital, and became investigators of CIBA Pahrmaceuticals in Summit, supported by NIH grants. Oliver was a highly innovative pathologist who played a critical role in the development of nephrology in the 20th century by appreciating the inportance of nephron heterogeneity in kidney disease, and the correlation of nephron structure with function. The latter became possible by his collaboration with renal physiologists (A.N. Richards, A.M. Walker, and C.W. Gottschalk) who developed single nephron micropuncture techniques. CITED BY S.J. PEITZMAN in Dropsy, Dialysis, Transplant: A Short History of Failing Kidneys (2007): "Thomas Addis represents one of several figures who brought together the structural and functional ways of viewing renal disease. He titled his monumental book of 1931 (with pathologist Jean Oliver) The Renal Lesion in Bright's disease. (offered here). A lavishly illustrated work of clinical-pathological correlation based form and purpose it recalled Richard Bright's Reports of Medical Cases of one hundred years earlier. By "renal lesion" he meant both the type of disordered structure and the amount of lost function. His three-component scheme for the pathologic classification of Bright's disease achieved its usefulness, Addis believed, from its direct linkage with his method of standardizing and quantifying the urine sediment examination. Addis still envisioned actual renal "mass," a mark of his upbringing in an era of medicine whose bedrock was still pathology. The use of the blood creatinine as the acceptance in the period after World War II and continues into the twenty-first century. But the number, the creatinine of blood, would acquire an ominous power, as had the name "Bright's Disease" in the nineteenth century. Thomas Addis took this seemingly inevitable deterioration to be the dominant challenge and tried to understand it through the laboratory by creating rat "models" of impaired kidneys. After an immense amount of study, he concluded that once some of the kidneys' nephrons have been destroyed by disease, the remaining nephrons (each human kidney comprises about 800,000 individual units) try to compensate by increasing their action, but then tend gradually to "burn out" from overwork. A downhill spiral ensues, which could only lead to death before measures became available (well after Addis's time) to replace kidney function, namely, dialysis and transplantation." CITED BY S.E. BRADLEY in Jean Redman Oliver in Context, Kidney International, Vol. 5 (1974) pp77-95: "Throughout all the intense productivity of the 40 years since Renal Lesion in Bright's Disease, an unremitting effort to work out the precise correlation of structure and function has run as a unifying motif. An essential element has been a return and microdissection employed tentatively during his student days and reported somewhat hesitantly in 1916 in his first publication having to do with the kidney. The tridimensionality in continuity of the total unit thus achieved has proved to be richly rewarding in throwing a flood of light upon the distortions in nephron conformation secondary to disease or persistent dysfunction, and in yielding an enormous number of new data. In a general way, three major themes may be made out—first, definition of the pathologic anatomy of renal disease in man, particularly with respect to change at the level of the nephrons; second, characterization of the nephron damage and dysfunctions of disease by means of discrete lesions produced experimentally under controlled conditions; and finally the determination to explore normal nephron function, structure and development by means of a combination of anatomic and physiologic techniques." CITED BY JOHN FEEHALLY: Landmark Papers in Nephrology (Oxford, 2013): # 5.9

GILGAMESH

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Title: GILGAMESH
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase
Description: Avon, CT: Limited Editions Club, 1974. Hardcover. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase. Irving Amen. Quarto (8-3/4" x 12-3/4") bound in ochre buckram stamped in brown pigment leaf with a reproduction of a 7th century B.C. cuneiform tablet mounted on the front cover. Translated by William Ellory Leonard. Illustrated with 9 three-color woodcuts and 7 part-page black-and-white woodcuts and linocuts reproduced from the work of Irving Amen. Copy #751 of 2000 SIGNED by the illustrator on the colophon page.

THE CHARLEMAGNE TOWER COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COLONIAL LAWS

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Title: THE CHARLEMAGNE TOWER COLLECTION OF AMERICAN COLONIAL LAWS
Seller: Charles Agvent, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Uncut and largely unopened. Near Fine
Description: [Philadelphia]: The Historical Society of Pennsylvania [J. B. Lippincott Company], 1890. First Edition. Hardcover. Uncut and largely unopened. Near Fine. Pebbled black cloth. Quarto; 298 pages. Contains a biography of Tower as well as a detailed catalog of American Laws. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by Tower on the front endpaper and scarce as such: "To/D. Mc N. Stauffer Esqre/with the compliments of/Charlemagne Tower [?]/9 January 1891./Philadelphia." With the recipient's (David McNeely Stauffer) bookplate on the front pastedown. David McNeely Stauffer (1845-1913) was an American civil engineer, editor, artist, and collector. He worked for several railroads including the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad until 1876 when he went into private practice. He wrote scholarly articles and edited the Engineering News. In addition to collecting autographs and illustrations, he designed book plates and did pen and ink drawings.

Aliens Outbreak by Verheiden, Mark; Nelson, Mark

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Title: Aliens Outbreak
Author: Verheiden, Mark; Nelson, Mark
Seller: Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9781852867560
Condition: Fine
Description: Milwaukie: Dark Horse Comics, 1996. First Edition. Paperback. Fine. Signed by Mark Nelson on the front cover. Fine. Clean wraps. Square and firmly bound, clean internally. A collection of books one through six of the Dark Horse Aliens series.

THE DIME DIALOGUES NO. 16: NEW, SPIRITED AND "TAKING" COLLOQUIES, FARCES, MINOR DRAMAS, DRESS PIECES, ETC., BY THE BEST WRITERS FOR SCHOOLS, EXHIBITIONS, AND HOME ENTERTAINMENTS. ARRANGED FOR STAGE, PLATFORM AND PARLOR, WITH ADJUNCTS OF SCENERY, "FURNITURE," COSTUMES, ETC., SIMPLIFIED TO ANY SITUATION by Beadle and Adams

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Title: THE DIME DIALOGUES NO. 16: NEW, SPIRITED AND "TAKING" COLLOQUIES, FARCES, MINOR DRAMAS, DRESS PIECES, ETC., BY THE BEST WRITERS FOR SCHOOLS, EXHIBITIONS, AND HOME ENTERTAINMENTS. ARRANGED FOR STAGE, PLATFORM AND PARLOR, WITH ADJUNCTS OF SCENERY, "FURNITURE," COSTUMES, ETC., SIMPLIFIED TO ANY SITUATION
Author: Beadle and Adams
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: New York: Beadle and Adams, Publishers, 1875. Original printed and illustrated salmon wrappers. [3], 10-92, [10 publ advts.] pp. Light wear, Very Good, with about a dozen stories. LeBlanc Dime Novel Bibliography on line.

Daniel Webster by MCMASTER, John Bach

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Title: Daniel Webster
Author: MCMASTER, John Bach
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Century, 1902. Very Good. First edition. Very good minus. Former owner's name on endpaper. Pages brown. Corners rubbed and bent. Edges of cover spine slightly frayed. Nice gold gilt picture on dark blue background.

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