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Album de Sainte-Pélagie, Prison de la Dette

Album de Sainte-Pélagie, Prison de la Dette by ADAM, Victor

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Album de Sainte-Pélagie, Prison de la Dette
Author
ADAM, Victor
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David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
Paris [&] London: V. Morlet [&] McLean, 1830. Twelve Superb Hand-Colored Lithographed Plates Depicting Scenes from the Debtor's Prison of Sainte-Pélagie ADAM, Victor. Album de Sainte-Pélagie, Prison de la Dette. [Gravures réhaussées à l'aquarelle. Douze scènes intérieures dessinées et lithographiées d'après nature par V. Adam]. Paris [&] London: Publié par V. Morlot [&] Mc.Léan, [n.d., ca. 1830]. First edition. Oblong folio (10 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches; 270 x 352 mm.). [4] pp. of descriptive text. Twelve numbered hand-colored lithographed plates. Plates lithographed by Bernard. Each plate with the publisher's oval blind-stamp in lower blank margin. Bound without the printed title-page. Mid-nineteenth century quarter red calf over marbled boards, smooth spine ruled and lettered in gilt. A superb example with fine contemporary hand-coloring. The plates are captioned: "L'Écrou;" "Chambre du détenu malheureux;" "Chambre du détenu philosophe;" "Les Élections;" "Le Cabinet de lecture;" "Le Cabaret;" "Le Café;" "Le Repas dans la cour;" "Les Jeux dans la cour;" "Le Bain du créancier;" "Le Paye;" and "Sortie du débiteur;." A rare album depicting various scenes at the Parisian prison of Sainte-Pélagie. This prison, once located in the 5th arrondissement, was active from 1790-1899 and housed many renowned prisoners during and after the French Revolution, including the Marquis de Sade. In this series, Adam conveys in various scenes of prison life the dignified squlor to which its inhabitants were reduced. Exceptionally rare. We have only seen this book once before - a copy with modern hand-coloring which we sold in 2003. OCLC locates just one copy - BCU Dorigny (Lausanne, Switzerland). Jean Victor Adam (1801-1866) was a French painter and lithographer. Born in Paris he was the son of Jean Adam, an esteemed engraver. During the years 1814 to 1818 he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, and also in the ateliers of Meynier and Régnault. In 1819 he exhibited 'Herminia succouring Tancred.' He was almost immediately afterwards employed to paint various subjects for the Museum at Versailles, amongst which are, 'The Entry of the French into Mainz,' 'The Battle of Varroux,' 'The Taking of Menin, 'The Battle of Castiglione,' 'The Passage of the Cluse,' 'The Battle of Montebello,' 'The Capitulation of Meiningen;' the last three in association with Alaux. He also exhibited down to the year 1838: 'Henry IV., after the Battle of Coutras,' 'Trait of Kindness in the Duke de Berri,' 'The Postillion,' 'The Vivandiere,' 'The Road to Poissy,' 'The Return from the Chase,' 'Horse-fair at Caen,' and numerous other subjects. He then retired from publicity, till 1846, when he appeared as the exhibitor of some works in lithography, to which branch of art he afterwards restricted himself. In this line he produced a lithographic album, 'Views in the Environs of Paris,' 'Studies of Animals for an edition of Buffon,' &c. He obtained a gold medal in 1824, a second class medal in 1836, besides several others from Lille, Douai, and other cities. He died at Viroflay in 1866. "Beraldi assigns between 7000 and 8000 designs to Victor Adam [1801-1865]...A Parisian by birth, he remained in the capital all his life, but this did not prevent him from drawing negroes, Turks, Chinese, and other peoples all over the world in his Paris studio. He was famous, indeed, as a faiseur de bonshommes, that is to say a specialist in adding groups of small figures to the foreground of architectural or landscape drawings by other artists...His immense production contains many amusing albums concerning the life of the time" (Ray, The Art of the French Illustrated Book, p. 194). Sainte-Pélagie was a debtor's prison in Paris, in active use from 1790 to 1899. The former Parisian prison was located between the current group of buildings bearing No. 56 Rue de la Clef with Rue du Puits-de-l'Ermite in the 5th arrondissement of Paris at the old Place Sainte-Pélagie. The penal structure held many noted prisoners during the French Revolution, with Madame Roland, Grace Dalrymple Elliott and Marie-Louise O'Murphy being among the known prisoners. After the revolution, the Marquis de Sade was imprisoned here, as was the young mathematician Évariste Galois. During the July Monarchy, the "April insurgees" were also detained there, and some managed to escape through a tunnel. The painter Gustave Courbet was also imprisoned there for his activities in the Paris Commune. Bobins V, 1524.
Dead Cert

Dead Cert by Dick Francis

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Dead Cert
Author
Dick Francis
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Grayshelf Books, ABAA, IOBA (United States)
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Near Fine
Description
First UK Edition (True First)/First Printing; A Near Fine book in a Very Good dust jacket. A nicely preserved copy of this title, the author's first work of fiction and his first mystery centered around horse racing; Francis would go on to establish himself as one of the great mystery writers of the 20th Century. This title uncommon in the first UK edition in the original jacket, particularly in this condition. This copy is in near fine condition with light rubbing to the edges, faint soiling to the text block, and a previous owner's name and address to the front free paper; housed in a clean and crisp very good original dust jacket that shows minor soiling to the panels, mild rubbing and chipping to the spine ends, and one short closed tear to the back panel. Not remaindered, not price clipped (15s Net intact), not ex-library; in a protective Mylar cover and will ship in a new sturdy box.
A Different Drummer [Review Copy]

A Different Drummer [Review Copy] by [AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KELLEY, William Melvin

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A Different Drummer [Review Copy]
Author
[AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY & LITERATURE] KELLEY, William Melvin
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Lorne Bair Rare Books (United States)
Description
Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1962. First Edition. First Printing, a Review Copy, with the publisher's typed slip laid in. Octavo (21.5cm); black pebbled boards and pale grey cloth backstrip, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [xii],223,[5]pp. Dustjacket is price-clipped, lightly edgeworn, with just a hint of sunning to spine; Near Fine. An attractive copy of the New York author's first novel, an exploration of the Great Migration, which addresses the hypothesis of what might happen if all the black people left, leaving an all-white southern state of the Union. "Tucker Caliban and his ancestors are heroes of a story set in a mythical state in the deep South. Beginning with the life of an African slave in the United States, it ends with all of the black population leaving that state in 1957, making it the only state without one black person in residence. Told as a fine literary parable, the story comes so close to reality as to fill all the requirements of the SF of social criticism in the form of the "warning story" (Barron, Anatomy of Wonder 3-226). In 1963 it earned the Rosenthal Foundation Award of the National Institute of Arts and Letters and the John Hay Whitney Foundation Award. See AANB, Vol.5, p.51. 81388.
Opera nova del cavalier Fregoso Antonio Phileremo. Lamento d’amore mendicante. Dialogo de musica. Pergoletta de le laudi d’amore. Discorsi cottidiani non volgari De l’instinto naturale De la probità. De i tre peregrini. Colophon: Stampata in Vinegia per Nicolo Zoppino di Aristotile di Ferrara ne l’anno di nostra salute MDXXVIII

Opera nova del cavalier Fregoso Antonio Phileremo. Lamento d’amore mendicante. Dialogo de musica. Pergoletta de le laudi d’amore. Discorsi cottidiani non volgari De l’instinto naturale De la probità. De i tre peregrini. Colophon: Stampata in Vinegia per Nicolo Zoppino di Aristotile di Ferrara ne l’anno di nostra salute MDXXVIII by FREGOSO, Antonio (ca. 1460-ca. 1530)

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Opera nova del cavalier Fregoso Antonio Phileremo. Lamento d’amore mendicante. Dialogo de musica. Pergoletta de le laudi d’amore. Discorsi cottidiani non volgari De l’instinto naturale De la probità. De i tre peregrini. Colophon: Stampata in Vinegia per Nicolo Zoppino di Aristotile di Ferrara ne l’anno di nostra salute MDXXVIII
Author
FREGOSO, Antonio (ca. 1460-ca. 1530)
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Govi Rare Books LLC (United States)
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Good
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8vo (149x99 mm). 82, [2 blank] leaves. Collation: A-K8 L4. Title page within an elaborate woodcut border. Leaves L3 and L4 are blank. Colophon and register at l. L2v. Roman and italic types. Variant A before the correction of "guanci" in "guancie" in the final line of text at l. A6r. On title-page verso note to the reader by Enrico Boscano. Later stiff vellum, inked title on spine, marbled edges. Lacking a small portion of paper from the upper margin of ll. F6 and F7 with minimal loss of text, marginal staining, some occasional foxing. From the collection of the bookseller Giuseppe Martini (his pencil notes on the front flyleaves, cf. E. Barbieri, ed., Da Lucca a New York a Lugano: Giuseppe Martini libraio tra Otto e Novecento, Florence, 2017). Rare second edition. In 1521 Fregoso vulgarised Lancino Curti's Silvae and in 1525 in Milan at Giovanni Giacomo Da Legnano and Bartolomeo da Crema's press he published his own 'silvae', also known as Opera nova, which includes Lamento d'Amore mendicante, Dialogo de musica, Pergoletta de le laudi de Amore, Discorsi cottidiani non vulgari, De lo istinto naturale, De la probità and, finally, De i tre peregrini. In this work, all of Fregoso's favourite themes return. Fortune, in contrast to Love, returns victorious thanks to her alliance with the blind Pluto who has wreaked havoc everywhere (Lamento d'Amore mendicante), while Platonic and Neo-Platonic concepts are repeated several times, in dialogue with Antonio Telesio and Simonetta: the correspondence between the harmony of the heavens, the harmony of nature and the harmony of the inner world (Dialogo de musica); the distinction between human and divine Love (Pergoletta de le laudi de Amore); the theory of demons that influence the actions of men according to their nature (Discorsi cottidiani non vulgari); the act of faith in the Reason innate in man, which allows even the child abandoned on the desert island to achieve his own form of education (De lo istinto naturale); the celebration of Probity, which comforts the embittered poet to flee the vanity of studies (De la Probità); and finally the fantastic journey of I tre peregrini, in which Eutimia accompanies Apuano, Filarete and Fregoso to a fair, which is the emporium of Fortune, and prevents them from buying what Fortune and Lust offer them through Epicurus, to follow instead the path of intellectual exercise and literature nourished by philosophy. Antonio Fregoso (or Campofregoso or Fulgoso) Fileremo (or Filareno, i.e. lover of solitude) was probably born in Carrara, around 1460, the illegitimate son of Spinetta of the noble Genoese Fregoso family and lord of the city. Lacking male heirs, his father legitimised Antonio by an act later ratified by Emperor Frederick III. Spinetta, linked to the Duke of Milan Francesco Sforza, appointed in his will Cicco Simonetta as administrator of his estate and guardian of his son. After Spinetta's death in 1467, Fregoso lived with the latter in Milan. In 1472 Galeazzo Maria Sforza officially granted Milanese citizenship to Fregoso, but the following year Simonetta, as ducal minister, deprived him of Carrara and Lunigiana, which had passed to Federico Malaspina, rewarding him in exchange with the fief of Sannazzaro in Lomellina. In 1478, on the occasion of Gian Galeazzo Sforza's ducal appointment, Fregoso was made a knight. After a brief absence, he returned to Milan, where he married Fiorbellina Visconti di Lodrisio. In 1499 he swore allegiance to Louis XII when the latter conquered the Duchy of Milan, thus keeping his knighthood but losing the feud of Sannazzaro. Fregoso then decided to retire to the villa in Colturano, on the road to Lodi, from where he sent his first works to Iafredo Carlo, president of the Milanese Senate. His retreat outside Milan did not, however, prevent him from frequenting the circles of Cecilia Gallerani and Ippolita Sforza Bentivoglio (as can be seen in the novelle I, 21 and III, 9 by M. Bandello). It is not clear what changes in Fregoso's life the succession in Milan of the Sforzas, French and Spanish after 1512 brought. He probably died around 1530. The fact that he is mentioned among the poets in the 1532 edition of L. Ariosto's Orlando furioso (XLVI, 16, v. 3 ff) does not serve to shift the terminus post quem since many of those mentioned in the poem were already dead at that date (V. De Matteis, Fregoso, Antonio Fileremo, in: "Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani", vol. 50, Rome, 1998, s.v.). Respectively in 1506 and 1507 Fregoso published two poems, the Riso di Democrito ("Democritus' Laughter") and the Pianto di Heraclito ("Heraclitus' Weeping), each in fifteen chapters of tercets. The translations into French by Michael d'Amboise (1547) and into Spanish by Alonso Lobera (1554) testify to the international fame of the two poems (often published together as I doi filosofi- 'The Two Philosophers'). The issue of fortune is presented in the form of a dialogue between the author, Lancino Curti and Bartolomeo Simonetta in the Dialogo de Fortuna (Milan, Pietro Martire Mantegazza, 1507). No longer in tercets but in octaves is the poem Contentione di Pluto & Iro ('The Contention of Pluto and Irus'), first printed in Milan by Mantegazza in 1507. Also in octaves is Fregoso's most famous work, the Cerva bianca ("The White Doe", Milan, Mantegazza, 1510) (cf. A. Dobelli, L'opera letteraria di Antonio Fregoso Fileremo, Modena, 1898). "In definitiva prodotti come quelli del Fregoso stavano a testimoniare, nel primo ventennio del '500, la vitalità di una 'letteratura mista e multiforme, drammatica, narrativa, allegorica, pronta a ogni sorta di esperimenti e però sufficientemente sciolta dall'impaccio delle regole... letteratura tutta moderna, se anche variamente assistita da antichi modelli classici e volgari'. E ne rende fede quel mannello di presenze raccolte intorno al Fileremo, vuoi interlocutori dei suoi dialoghi, vuoi pubblici laudatores delle sue imprese poetiche: editori, poeti nell'una e nell'altra lingua, letterati, oratori, quegli stessi che si ritrovano se si ha la pazienza di seguire certi fili che porge il sistema delle dedicatorie bandelliane: gli esponenti insomma di una cultura legata in fondo ancora alle sue origini cortigiane e destinata nel terzo decennio del '500 a frantumarsi per 'un naturale e mirabile accordo della storia letteraria con quella politica' " (G. Dilemmi, Un capitolo della cultura settentrionale all'inizio del '500, in: A. Fregoso, "Opere", Bologna, 1976, pp. XXIX-XXX). Edit 16, CNCE19885; USTC, 830993; L. Baldacchini, Alle origini dell'editoria in volgare. Niccolò Zoppino da Ferrara a Venezia, annali (1503-1544), Manziana, 2011, pp. 203-204, no. 217; Essling, Le livres à figures vénitiens, Florence-Paris, 1909, III, 655; G. Dilemmi, Nota ai testi, in: A. Fregoso, "Opere", Bologna, 1976, pp. LIV.
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Legislatorial trial of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen of England by QUEEN CAROLINE BARRON Edward

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Legislatorial trial of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen of England
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QUEEN CAROLINE BARRON Edward
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
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1820. First Edition. (QUEEN CAROLINE). [BARRON, Edward]. The Legislatorial Trial of Her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth, Queen of England, Consort of George the Fourth, for the Alleged Crime of Adultery with Bartolomeo Bergami. London: H. Rowe, 1820. Octavo, contemporary quarter speckled calf, marbled boards, spine elaborately gilt-decorated. $1400.First edition: An uncommon contemporary account of one of the greatest royal scandals of the 19th century, with five engraved plates including a folding frontispiece of the courtroom.Following the charge of adultery laid by King George IV against Queen Caroline and her former servant Bartolomeo Pergami (given here as Bergami), the House of Lords proceeded to examine every salacious detail of the queen's alleged misdeeds in 51 days' worth of proceedings here compiled by Edward Barron, author of a fictionalized version of Caroline's life titled The Royal Wanderer. The accusations presented in court included testimony about an indecent fandango dancer named Mahomet, a sighting of Her Majesty with a bare breast while in seclusion with Pergami and opinions of a chambermaid regarding stains on the queen's bedclothes, along with many questions about bathing, sleeping and dining arrangements. Some, all, or none of this may have been invention prompted by greed, malice, or the king's well-known desire to rid himself of his long-estranged wife, with Barron declaring himself convinced that the trial established ""the innocence of a long persecuted Queen"" — despite Caroline's generally famously licentious behavior. The present account was one of the earliest complete reports to make it to press, appearing shortly after the trial's conclusion in November. The volume is illustrated with an oversized, folding plate engraved by Robert Roberts after H.R. Cruikshanks, titled ""A Sketch of the Interior View of the House of Lords, Representing the Trial of Her Majesty Queen Caroline"" and providing a key to the figures depicted, as well as with four other engraved portraits of Henry Brougham, Louisa Dumont, Thomas Denman and Princess Charlotte (some copies are described as having an additional portrait of the queen, not present here). Text and plates with occasional foxing, front free endpaper with old tape residue. Handsome contemporary binding with expert restoration to joints and extremities.
[EROTICA / CURIOUSA / ISLAMIC LAW]. Original painting, with designs of six animals in which appear multiple orgies

[EROTICA / CURIOUSA / ISLAMIC LAW]. Original painting, with designs of six animals in which appear multiple orgies by Anonymous Indian Artist / Burhan al-Shariah, Mahmud ibn Ubayd Allah

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[EROTICA / CURIOUSA / ISLAMIC LAW]. Original painting, with designs of six animals in which appear multiple orgies
Author
Anonymous Indian Artist / Burhan al-Shariah, Mahmud ibn Ubayd Allah
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Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
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Very good
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India, Early 20th century (?). Very good. Large painting on a manuscript leaf (in Arabic) from the "Sharh al-Wiqayah" by Burhan al-Shariah, Mahmud ibn Ubayd Allah (SEE BELOW), 353 x 216 mm, hinged onto plexiglas mount with clear tape so that the text of the manuscript is visible from the back; matted (matte size: 500 x 360). A remarkable erotic Indian painting of an uncommon type, which we describe as "zoomorphic erotica." The painting depicts a camel within a frame, surrounded by an antilope, a lion, a horse, a gazelle, and a bull; within each animal is a depiction of an orgy comprised of six (or in the case of the camel) seven men and women, all finely rendered by an artist of considerable skill. This is a very high quality piece. THE MANUSCRIPT on which the painting was applied belongs to a rare text: is an excerpt from the "Sharḥ al-Wiqāyah," a commentary on a work of Hanafi fiqh (law) by Burhān al-Sharīʻah, Maḥmūd ibn ʻUbayd Allāh (d. 1274 or 1275), specifically from the chapter about PREPARING BODIES FOR FUNERALS. We are grateful to Kelly Tuttle for her scholarly generosity in identifying this text, and for dating it to the early 20th century. MUST BE SEEN TO BE FULLY APPRECIATED.
Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen

Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, Hans Christian

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Fairy Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
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Andersen, Hans Christian
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Underground Books, ABAA (United States)
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London: Ward, Lock & Co., Limited, 1875. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover. Like the moonlit fairy gracing its covers, this turn-of-the-century collection of fairy tales is sure to sweep you off your feet and into worlds full of magic and adventure. This beautifully and bountifully illustrated edition collects over 150 beloved fairy tales by the great Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875), the writer of novels, poems, travelogues, plays, and, of course, such enduring stories as "The Little Mermaid,” “Thumbelina," "The Snow Queen," and "The Ugly Duckling," all of which are presented here, along with less familiar but just as treasurable tales, fully illustrated in 100 enchanting engravings, including full-page plates, vignettes, chapter headings, tailpieces, and decorative initials throughout. 8 5/8" X 6". xxxii, 525pp, plus two pages of ads. Bound in deep blue cloth over bevelled boards, with the figure of moonlit and star-spangled fairy stamped in green, gilt, white, and black to upper board, two smaller fairies stamped in kind to spine, and both lettered in black and gilt over green. Rather heavy wear to binding, with rubbing to edges, hard bumping to extremities, bubbling to cloth, and lean to spine. Inner hinges show signs of amateur glue repair after cracking; binding remains quite firm and sound, though endpapers show unsightly tears. Small square of blue paper to front free endpaper, with old price and small blue spot to verso. Gift inscription to verso of title page ("A present—to Winnie, From Fred." Foxing to pages throughout, with occasional smudge, else unmarked. Illustrated in 100 engravings throughout.
The WGN Broadcasting Auditorium Competition (With Its Original Shipping Carton)

The WGN Broadcasting Auditorium Competition (With Its Original Shipping Carton)

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The WGN Broadcasting Auditorium Competition (With Its Original Shipping Carton)
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Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Near Fine
Description
WGN (The Chicago Tribune), 1934. Pictorial boards. Near Fine. Uncommon 1934 announcement --in book form-- of the upcoming "WGN Broadcasting Auditorium Competition". (The opening paragraph: "WGN, the Chicago Tribune radio station, proposes to erect on the property at Michigan Avenue and Illinois Street, adjoining Tribune Tower, a building which will house its broadcasting studios. The building when completed will contain a large broadcasting studio to which the public will be admitted. This large studio should therefore fulfill the requirements for a public auditorium."). Clean and very sharp in its dark pictorial boards, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel. Thin quarto, floor plans in addition to text. Also includes the fragile, dark cardboard "WGN Broadcasting Auditorium Competition" shipping carton, which shows just a bit of wear and offsetting along the edges.
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A Further Inquiry Concerning Constitutional Irritation, and the Pathology of the Nervous System by TRAVERS, Benjamin

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A Further Inquiry Concerning Constitutional Irritation, and the Pathology of the Nervous System
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TRAVERS, Benjamin
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Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
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London: G. Woodfall for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1835. FIRST EDITION. Contemporary gilt-ruled calf, edges gilt. Ownership inscription of John Davis on the title. First edition. Part I covers inflammation and localized ailments; Part II explores the nervous system and its disorders. This work follows his 1826 An inquiry concerning that disturbed state of the vital functions usually denominated constitutional irritation. Travers (1783-1858) was an apprentice to Sir Astley Cooper, with whom he wrote Surgical essays published in 1818-1819. A vascular and ophthalmic surgeon at St. Thomas’ in London, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1813 and ultimately acquired much of Cooper’s practice. He was “the first hospital surgeon in England to devote himself to the surgery of the eye.” DNB, XIX, pp. 1085-1086; see Heirs of Hippocrates, 1227.
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Manual of Surveying Instructions for the Survey of Public Lands of the United States .... by Anon.

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Manual of Surveying Instructions for the Survey of Public Lands of the United States ....
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Anon.
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
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Very good; some rubbing to the cloth.
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Washington DC: GPO, 1902. First Edition. Original publisher's cloth.. Very good; some rubbing to the cloth.. 8vo, [4], [5] - 203, [1] pp + 8 very large folding plates. A highly detailed instruction manual for the survey of American public lands; including a history of the development of the instructions from the time of Jefferson forward to the publication date. Included are three specimen samples of surveying field notes for Montana undertaken by Richard Roods and then Robert Acres in 1890 and 1893. The large folding plates are in excellent condition overall.
The Negro in New York: A Historical-Biographical Evaluation From 1626 [Signed and Inscribed]

The Negro in New York: A Historical-Biographical Evaluation From 1626 [Signed and Inscribed] by James Egert Allen

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The Negro in New York: A Historical-Biographical Evaluation From 1626 [Signed and Inscribed]
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James Egert Allen
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Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
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Very Good
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New York: Exposition Press, 1964. Very Good/Very Good. New York: Exposition Press, 1964. First Edition, stated. Octavo (21cm); typographic dust jacket with $3.00 price intact; boards in gray cloth with black lettering; 94pp. Jacket edgeworn with a few shallow tears; fairly heavy toning to front, rear, and spine, with foxing to flaps; toning and foxing to verso. Boards square with light rubbing at corners and spine ends. Foxing to rear endpapers, else interior unmarked. Binding sound. Signed by the author on front free endpaper with inscription "To Mrs. Gussie Corley Peters, A Connecticut Yankee whom I admire. James Egert Allen, June 7, 1964.
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Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx City of New York Vol. CXIII. For the Year Ending July 1, 1900

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Trow's General Directory of the Boroughs of Manhattan and Bronx City of New York Vol. CXIII. For the Year Ending July 1, 1900
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Michael Brown Rare Books, LLC (United States)
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Good
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New York:: Trow Directory, Printing & Bookbinding Co., 1899. Hardcover. Good. stout quarto, folding map, iv, [2], [17]- 1407, 52, 111 pp., ex-library, handstamps, rebound in later cloth, red and black leather spine labels, call number on spine, else a good copy.
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The Herbal of al-Ghafiqi: A Facsimile Edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, With Critical Essays edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek. Fine copy in fine dust jacket

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The Herbal of al-Ghafiqi: A Facsimile Edition of MS 7508 in the Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, With Critical Essays edited by F. Jamil Ragep and Faith Wallis with Pamela Miller and Adam Gacek. Fine copy in fine dust jacket
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Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.
The Fool's Progress

The Fool's Progress by ABBEY, Edward

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Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA
Title
The Fool's Progress
Author
ABBEY, Edward
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN
9780805009217
Description
New York: Henry Holt, 1988. First edition. The last novel published during his life, and one of his best. A very near fine copy in a near fine first issue dust jacket that has the typographical errors on the flaps.
Good News Bad News

Good News Bad News by ABBOTT, Keith

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Title
Good News Bad News
Author
ABBOTT, Keith
Seller
Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Monte Rio, CA: Doris Green Editions, 1984. First edition. Softcover. A collection of poems printed in an edition of 250. A close to near fine copy in side stapled wrappers.
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(Songster) Old Uncle Ned Songster.

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Seller: Savoy Books
Title
(Songster) Old Uncle Ned Songster.
Seller
Savoy Books (United States)
Description
Philadelphia: Fisher & Brother, n.d. Book. 24mo, original pictorial wrappers. Pp. [124]. Pictorial title and frontispiece. Minor wear, a fine fresh copy. Minstrel era collection, includes "Angelina Baker", "Poor Old Joe", "Walk in the Parlor", "The Rose of Baltimore", and "Night Funeral of a Slave", etc..
[COCKTAIL] [MENU] Hotel Veracruz

[COCKTAIL] [MENU] Hotel Veracruz

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Title
[COCKTAIL] [MENU] Hotel Veracruz
Seller
lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition
Color illustrated cards. Very good
Description
Veracruz, Mexico, c. 1965. Cards. Color illustrated cards. Very good. 32.5 x 25.5 cm. A large format cocktail menu with an extensive selection of wines, whiskeys, vermouth, beer, and cocktails. Visible crease to center, otherwise clean.
A teacher takes a stand

A teacher takes a stand

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Title
A teacher takes a stand
Seller
Bolerium Books Inc., ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Description
Seattle: A Citizens Committee to Secure Democratic Rights Within Our Schools, [195-]. Six-panel brochure, toned, otherwise very good. On the case of Hildur Jo Hughes, who was dismissed by the Superintendent of Schools for "insubordination" because of her work with left-wing groups. Undated, but mentions that one of the issues she was working on was calling for an armistice in the Korean War.
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An Album of American Battle Art, 1755-1918

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Title
An Album of American Battle Art, 1755-1918
Seller
Mullen Books, Inc. ABAA / ILAB (United States)
Condition
VG, small letters on base of spine
Description
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1947. Hardcover. VG, small letters on base of spine. Blue cloth. 319 pp. 150 bw plates. A standard reference, with ten chronological categories listing different epochs.
"Spontaneous Mutations in Dry Spores of Neurospora Crassa." Offprint from: Zeitschrift fur Vererbungslehre, 90.

"Spontaneous Mutations in Dry Spores of Neurospora Crassa." Offprint from: Zeitschrift fur Vererbungslehre, 90. by AUERBACH, Charlotte (1899-1994).

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"Spontaneous Mutations in Dry Spores of Neurospora Crassa." Offprint from: Zeitschrift fur Vererbungslehre, 90.
Author
AUERBACH, Charlotte (1899-1994).
Seller
Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description
No place:: Zeitschrift fur Vererbungslehre, 1959., 1959. 8vo. 335-346 pp. 2 figs. Self-wraps. Ownership rubber stamp of Norman Horowitz, California Institute of Technology. Fine. Auerbach was associated with the Institute of Animal Genetics, Edinburgh. She was the grandchild of the famous neuro-anatomist Leopold Auerbach (1828-1897) Auerbach was a German geneticist who became well known when she, A. J. Clark, & J. M. Robson discovered that mustard gas could cause mutations in fruit flies. Because of this and later work the science of mutagenesis was born.
REVISTA DE BELLAS ARTES. NO. 2

REVISTA DE BELLAS ARTES. NO. 2

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Title
REVISTA DE BELLAS ARTES. NO. 2
Seller
Beverly Karno Books LLC (United States)
Description
México: Secretaria de Educación Publica; Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1965. b/w plates, ports., wrps., ISSN: 0185-3570. OCLC: 2266971. Issue published six numbers a year, devoted to art, literature and culture.
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IF A BODY by YATES, George Worthing

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Title
IF A BODY
Author
YATES, George Worthing
Seller
Second Life Books Inc (United States)
Description
NY: Morrow, 1941. First Edition. 8vo, pp. 281. Tan cloth. Owners' bookplate on pastedown. Edges of cover little worn, spine darkened, o/w a VG tight copy. A mystery novel.
Deeper Meaning of Liff.
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Deeper Meaning of Liff. by ADAMS, Douglas and LLOYD, John.

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Title
Deeper Meaning of Liff.
Author
ADAMS, Douglas and LLOYD, John.
Seller
Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
ISBN
9780517585979
Condition
Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Description
NY:: Harmony Books,. Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 0517585979 . First American printing. Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. .
Around Klamath Country

Around Klamath Country

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Title
Around Klamath Country
Seller
Ken Sanders Rare Books, ABAA (United States)
Description
Klamath Falls, OR: CareFree Living Productions, Inc, 1981. Hardcover. 252pp. Quarto [31 cm] Brown textured vinyl spine and boards with raised gilt stamped titles on the spine and front cover, and an embossed covered wagon vignette, along with a yellow, blue and red ink stamped design of the state of Oregon on the front cover. Near fine condition. Profusely illustrated. With "The History of Klamath Country" written by Devere Helfrich.

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