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Autograph manuscript leaf from Walden

Autograph manuscript leaf from Walden by THOREAU Henry David

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Autograph manuscript leaf from Walden
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THOREAU Henry David
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1854. THOREAU, Henry David. Autograph manuscript leaf from Walden. Concord, Massachusetts, 1854. One leaf, measuring eight by ten inches, writing in ink on recto and verso, window mounted housed in a custom portfolio. $39,000.A wonderful item: an original autograph manuscript leaf from Henry David Thoreau's masterpiece, Walden, including passages from the chapter ""Higher Laws"" where Thoreau discusses his moral ambivalence about fishing, and another from the ""Baker's Farm"" chapter that also features fishing.This autograph manuscript leaf contains passages from at least two chapters of Walden. The first paragraph can be found in the ""Baker's Farm"" chapter, where at one point Thoreau takes shelter from the weather with an Irish farmer, John Field. The passage reads: ""…I trust he does not hear this:—thinking to live by some derivative old-country mode in this primitive new country — to catch perch with shiners. With his horizon all his own, yet he a poor man, born to be poor, with his inherited Irish poverty or poor life, his Adam's grandmother and boggy ways, not to rise in this world, he nor his posterity, till their wading webbed bog-trotting feet get talaria to their heels."" This is followed by the text from the beginning of the next chapter, ""Higher Laws,"" contrasting physical and spiritual existence, and part of a later section that continues that same theme but with a focus on fishing: ""As I came home through the woods with my string of fish, trailing my pole along, when the world had waxed dark, I glimpsed a woodchuck dark across my path, and felt a strange flush of savage delight and was strongly tempted to seize and devour it raw. The wildest most desolate scenes had become strangely fam[iliar] to me. Thus it is I find predominantly in me an instinct to a higher and more spiritual life than the common and also another inclining to a primitive and savage life, and I reverence them both alike. I find continually that I cannot fish without falling a little in my own respect. I have tried it again [and] again. I have skill at it—a certain instinct for it which revives from time to time, [but] always when I have done—I feel that it would have been better if I had not fished. I think I am not mistaken. It is a faint intimation—yet so are the first streaks of morning. It tempts me because it's a means of having arguments with nature—not only with fishes, but with ___ and water and scenery. Which I should not otherwise see under the same aspects…"" Math equations in pencil. presumably in another hand, upside down at the bottom of the verso.Leaf with loss to some edges, just touching text at one point. A very rare leaf from an original Walden manuscript with exceptional content.
Learning from Las Vegas

Learning from Las Vegas by VENTURI Robert SCOTT BROWN Denise

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Learning from Las Vegas
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VENTURI Robert SCOTT BROWN Denise
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1972. First Edition. Signed. VENTURI, Robert. SCOTT BROWN, Denise. IZENOUR, Steven. Learning from Las Vegas. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, (1972). Folio, original full blue cloth, photographic onlay, original glassine dust jacket. $6000.First edition of this revolutionary book of architecture, signed by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. With rare original glassine dust jacket.Architect Robert Venturi, city planner Denise Scott Brown, and architect Steven Izenour's manifesto expressed their critiques of the plainness of modernist architecture, and extolled the virtues of a different aesthetic in which architects were more receptive to the tastes and values of average people. ""The target of Venturi's attack is Mies van der Rohe's formula 'less is more', a phrase coined to denote a form of aestheticised functionalism. Venturi's response, illustrated by historic examples, is 'More is not less', or, in a particularly aggressive formulation, 'Less is a bore'. Venturi sets out to put his experience of Mannerism and Baroque to the service of a new concept of architecture by returning to the complexity in form and substance, of these two styles; at the same time his experience of contemporary Pop Art turns his thoughts to the everyday world of the consumer society"" (Kruft, 440). The influence of this work extends far beyond architecture: it is credited with inspiring the post-modern movement in art and literary and social theory. This first edition includes a section on the architectural work of the Venturi and Rauch firm, and more and larger photographs than do revised editions. Without errata slip. Book fine, fragile glassine dust jacket with creasing, shallow chipping to extremties with no loss of text. A near-fine signed copy of a landmark work in postmodern architectural theory.
As We Remember Joe

As We Remember Joe by KENNEDY John F. KENNEDY Robert POWERS Dave

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As We Remember Joe
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KENNEDY John F. KENNEDY Robert POWERS Dave
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1945. First Edition. Signed. (KENNEDY, Robert) KENNEDY, John F. As We Remember Joe. Cambridge, MA: Privately Printed University Press, 1945. Octavo, original maroon cloth. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $4500.First edition, second issue (one of only 250 copies privately printed for family and friends), of this tribute to the eldest of the Kennedy brothers, an exceptional presentation/association copy inscribed by Robert Kennedy to President Kennedy's beloved friend Dave Powers, ""For Dave, Bob Kennedy, Christmas 1965."" John F. Kennedy edited this collection of 20 essays (and also wrote the first, ""My Brother Joe"") memorializing his eldest brother, Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., who won the Naval Cross and was killed in action in 1944. Privately printed for family and friends. There were 390 copies printed in the first issue with winged device on title page printed in red, and 250 in this, the second issue, with winged device on title page printed in black. With numerous photographic illustrations. David Powers' ""loyalty, sense of humor and contacts throughout Boston's Irish community made him a close friend and aide to John F. Kennedy and a fixture at the Kennedy White House."" At Powers' death in 1998, Edward Kennedy wrote: ''Jack loved Dave Powers like a brother, and so did all of us in the Kennedy family.'' The two met in 1946 when JFK was running for Congress and Powers worked ""on each of Kennedy's subsequent campaigns, for the House, the Senate and then the Presidency. After winning the 1960 election, Kennedy named Powers a special assistant in the White House… But his real role was First Friend, someone with no agenda of his own who could share a silence, reel off baseball and football statistics or make Kennedy laugh with one of his endless supply of tales and jokes… Powers was in the motorcade in Dallas when Kennedy was killed, and after the assassination, he remained close to the Kennedy family, visiting often with the slain President's children… In 1970 Powers, Kenneth O'Donnell and Joe McCarthy wrote Johnny, We Hardly Knew Ye, a nostalgic biography of Kennedy"" (New York Times). Faint trace of paperclip to front pastedown and upper edge of several early leaves not affecting text.A fine presentation copy with a especially memorably association.
Letters to Various Persons

Letters to Various Persons by THOREAU Henry David

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Letters to Various Persons
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THOREAU Henry David
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1865. First Edition. THOREAU, Henry David. Letters to Various Persons. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1865. Octavo, original blind- and gilt-stamped purple cloth. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase. $2600.First edition of this wonderful posthumous collection of Thoreau’s letters, edited by Emerson, a fine copy in the original cloth. This first collection of Thoreau's letters was edited after his death by Ralph Waldo Emerson, who notes in his preface, ""It may interest the reader… to know that nearly all these letters have been printed from the original autographs furnished by the persons to whom they were addressed."" With nine poems appended to the letters. BAL binding ""A""; Borst binding ""5,"" priority undetermined. BAL 20116. Borst A6.1.a. Allen, 21. Johnson, 501. A beautiful copy in fine condition.
De sacramentis Christianae fidei

De sacramentis Christianae fidei by Hugo de Sancto Victore (ca. 1096-1141)

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De sacramentis Christianae fidei
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Hugo de Sancto Victore (ca. 1096-1141)
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Liber Antiquus (United States)
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[Augsburg: Günther Zainer,] c., 1477. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, the brass clasp with catch-plate preserved. An original title on label on upper board is preserved, with slight loss. The binding has been rebacked and has some other minor restorations; the lower boards is a bit wormed. A fine, broad-margined copy, with just a little marginal worming to the first and final few leaves (not affecting the text); light dampstain to the lower corner of first 4 leaves; discoloration to the margins of the final two leaves. The text is adorned with large, attractive woodcut initials throughout. Provenance: Engraved bookplate of the Bozner Franziskanerkloster, the Franciscan friary of Bolzano, South Tyrol (Trentino-Alto Adige), acquired by Elaine and Alexandre Rosenberg from H.P. Kraus, New York, 4 May 1955. Hugh of St. Victor’s ‘De sacramentis Christianae fidei’ (On the Sacraments/Mysteries of the Christian Faith), marks an important stage in the early development of systematic theology. It is the first of the medieval summa, a form that would flower in the next century and reach maturity in the work of Aquinas. Hugh’s outline for this doctrinal masterwork is salvation history itself, from institution (creation) to restoration (salvation) as centered on the incarnation and as yet to be fulfilled. This edition comprises Part II of the work; Part I was not printed until 1485, by Georg Husner, at Strasbourg. “Hugh of St. Victor's principal work, ‘De sacramentis Christianae fidei’, represents a watershed in the history of Christian sacramental theology. It gathers together much of the Western Church’s prior understandings of the sacraments, especially those of Augustine and Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, systematizes and amplifies them, and betokens later developments by thirteenth-century scholars such as Thomas Aquinas and Bonaventure. It was written just after Hugh became prior of the influential Augustinian abbey of St Victor, Paris, in 1133. In ‘De sacramentis’, Hugh depicted the Christian experience as a process of restoration within human history situated in the Incarnation, effected by means of the sacraments, and ultimately completed in the union beyond history of the individual with God. “Hugh codified the various sacraments into a sophisticated taxonomy which included both temporal and theological axes. Heilsgeschichte consisted of three discrete and chronological dispensations: the time of ‘Natural Law’ (Creation to Moses), ‘Written Law’ (Moses to the Christevent) and ‘Grace’ (Christ-event to the Consummation). Theologically speaking, the sacraments in each dispensation comprised three types: those which were preparatory to salvation; those which were beneficial, but not imperative; and those which were essential to salvation. Those necessary for salvation in the dispensation of grace included ‘faith’, ‘the sacraments of faith’ (that is, the seven so-called ‘liturgical’ sacraments) and ‘good works’… “A clear understanding of Hugh’s sacramental theology in ‘De sacramentis’ is impossible without first a proper knowledge of his nuanced use of the Latin term sacramentum. ‘Now we must understand,’ he averred, ‘that we ought not to believe that all [sacraments] are sacraments.’ At the foundational level, a sacramentum was either an empirical representation and/or an indicator of a metaphysical reality. It could take the form of either a material element, physical action or spoken words. In short, a sacrament was a sign (signum), to use Hugh’s favourite synonym. It was extremely important for Hugh, however, to differentiate between three broad interpretations for the word: profane sacraments, sacred sacraments, which impart grace, and sacred sacraments which do not. “At a basic level, there were both profane and religious sacraments (sacramenta). Sacraments of non-Christians (‘infidels’), ‘military sacraments’ and ‘sacraments of the devil’ constituted some of these profane sacramenta which are occasionally mentioned in ‘De sacramentis’. Perhaps these were references to the word’s more prevalent, extra-ecclesiastical meanings in the Middle Ages such as an ‘oath’ (military, civil or private), ‘solemn engagement’ or ‘initiation’. “But more pervasively for Hugh, sacramentum designated a sacred sign or sign of a religious reality. Not all sacred signs were alike, however. ‘One thing is a sacrament only by signifying sanctification and by sanctifying through sanctification; another, not by sanctifying but by signifying only’. In other words, some sacred signs conferred ‘grace’ (gratia) by means of the Holy Spirit and others did not. Hugh understood ‘grace’ as a metaphysical enlightenment, extraordinary anointing or supernatural strengthening. ‘Virtue’ (virtus), Hugh’s synonym of choice, referred not to a moral or aesthetic quality but to spiritual power. It was only since the completion of the Christ-event that humans had access to virtue-conferring sacraments; prior to that time, in the first two dispensations, no sacrament could confer this grace.‘ In the third dispensation, the seven liturgical sacraments (Hugh’s ‘sacraments of faith’) and a certain higher order of the sacrament of faith composed the virtue-conferring sacraments. Good works and a lower order of the sacrament of faith did not bestow virtue, but were, nevertheless, efficacious sacred signs on their own terms as a means of God’s restorative action. Their primary function was to increase religious piety or devotion. Although such a two-fold differentiation of sacramentum was implicit in an inchoate form in Augustine, Hugh was the first Christian theologian of significance to distinguish between a ‘sacrament’ proper and a ‘sacramental’…. “In light of the subtlety and complexity of Hugh’s sacramental theology as contained in the encyclopedic ‘De sacramentis’, it is little wonder that medieval scholar Marie-Dominique Chenu characterized him as ‘that master of sacraments and sacramentalism’. The sacraments for Hugh constituted an integral part of that series of activities in the life of the Christian believer which fulfilled divine imperatives. Within each of the sacraments required for salvation, faith, the liturgical sacraments and good works, there was a discernible order of priority, divinely ordained. But together, these three operated in harmony, without disparity in significance, to affect spiritual transformation and to affect God’s ‘work of restoration’.”(Girolimon, Hugh of St. Victor’s ‘De sacramentis Christianae fidei: the Sacraments of Salvation, in The Journal of Religious History, Vol. 18, No. 2, December 1994) The early Scholastic theologian and mystic Hugh of St. Victor (c.1096–1141) left a large and influential corpus of works on all aspects of theology, as well as the liberal arts broadly defined… “Hugh’s encyclopedic interests include grammar and geometry, philosophy and all of theology, history and eschatology, Job and Mary, the sacraments broadly and narrowly defined, spirituality, and the Dionysian Celestial Hierarchy. How he held all this together in his thought and corpus is a challenge to modern (and postmodern) readers.”(Rorem).
The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. [Bound with, as issued:] A New version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the tunes used in churches. By N. Brady, D.D. chaplain in Ordinary, and N. Tate, Esq; poet lauraet [sic] to His Majesty

The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. [Bound with, as issued:] A New version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the tunes used in churches. By N. Brady, D.D. chaplain in Ordinary, and N. Tate, Esq; poet lauraet [sic] to His Majesty by CHURCH OF IRELAND

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The book of common prayer, and administration of the sacraments, and other rites and ceremonies of the church, according to the use of the Church of Ireland: Together with the Psalter or Psalms of David, pointed as they are to be sung or said in churches. [Bound with, as issued:] A New version of the Psalms of David, fitted to the tunes used in churches. By N. Brady, D.D. chaplain in Ordinary, and N. Tate, Esq; poet lauraet [sic] to His Majesty
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CHURCH OF IRELAND
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Liber Antiquus (United States)
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Dublin: Printed by and for George Grierson, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty, at the King's Arms and Two Bibles in Essex-Street, 1733. With 52 engraved plates on heavier paper, by Elisha Kirkall (1682-1742), printed at London by John Clarke. Hardcover. Fine. An extremely rare Dublin imprint in a contemporary Irish binding. The publisher, George Grierson, husband of the Irish author Constantia Grierson (1705-1732). ESTC locates only 2 copies (British Library, National Library of Ireland.). Bound in ornately tooled contemporary red goat with onlaid cream paper lozenges against a ground richly decorated in gold with birds, feathers, crowned thistles, stars and fleurs-de-lys, divided into compartments with pointillé stipling. Spine with leather onlays in black and citron, elaborately tooled in gold. Board edges and turn-ins also with gilt tooling. Corners lightly bumped, several areas of the boards abraded. With three tools (bird, fleru-de-lis, star) very similar and possibly identical to Craig, Irish Bookbindings, no. 41 (printed by Grierson's successor, Boulter, in 1765) See also Maggs catalog 1075, "Bookbinding in the British Isles", no. 169. However, as Craig notes, "It is quite possible that the Dublin die-sinkers were capable of cutting two or more tools so similar as to deceive all but a scrutiny based on physical proximity of two volumes on which different tools were used." "Notwithstanding that white inlays are found in French, Swiss and English bindings before the Irish period, and that there exist contemporary imitations of Irish binding, the popular belief that any binding with a lozenge-shaped white inlay is Irish, is broadly true. Though I know of no non-Parliamentary example before 1737, the binding of Lords 1697 (Plate 1) seems to have had such an inlay. Yet, since Lords 1697 may not have been bound much before 1737, it is possible that the genesis of the style occurred at about that time. The lozenge is one of the few obvious motifs for the decoration of a cover, and was of course exploited in the Grolier period. But it is at least possible that the Irish lozenge is in part a development from the harleian centre-piece. The commonest Irish bindings are Prayer-books of the 1750's, 1760's and 1770's, or almanacks of the 1770's, 1780's and 1790's, of lozenge-inlay type. "It is convenient to use the term 'inlay', though in fact it seems that no Irish example of a true inlay is known. Strictly, they are all 'overlays'. At least three-quarters of the white or cream examples are of paper. There is no correlation whatever between the richness of the binding and the use of leather in preference to paper. The Royal set of the Statutes, for example, has them in paper, while the Rothschild-National Library set, done for some (inevitably) less exalted personage, has them in leather. In the very finest of the Parliamentary bindings they are usually of paper, as appears from the fact that the wire- and chain-lines emerge clearly in the rubbings. It need hardly be observed that good hand-made paper is, in such a position, capable of being as durable as leather."(Irish Bookbindings 1600-1800) The series of prints by Elisha Kirkall (1682-1742) is numbered 1-52. In addition to Biblical scenes, there are three historical prints: "The [Gunpowder] Plot, November 5", "King Charles I. Murthered", and "King Charles II, His Return". The first plate shows King George II and bears the publisher's information (John Clarke, London).
History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean Performed during the Years 1804-5-6 by Order of the Government of the United States

History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean Performed during the Years 1804-5-6 by Order of the Government of the United States by (Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark) Allen, Paul

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History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, to the Sources of the Missouri, thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean Performed during the Years 1804-5-6 by Order of the Government of the United States
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(Lewis, Meriwether and William Clark) Allen, Paul
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Very good
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Philadlephia: Bradford and Inskeep, 1814. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. Octavo, 2 volumes. (3), iv-xxviii, 1-470;(2), 522pp. Two plates in volume I, and another three in volume II, as called for. Sometime rebound in full calf, spines tooled with gilt lines and leather lettering pieces, gilt; pleasing paste paper endpapers. The map is present in facsimile. Some light staining at the front of volume I, and near the end of volume II, and light foxing typical of the period. Overall a very good set of this cornerstone of any Western Americana collection. Church 1309; Field 928; Graff 2477; Howes L-317; Printing and the Mind of Man, 272; Sabin 825; Streeter III, 177; Wagner-Camp 13. .
Historia Inquisitionis. Cum Subjungitur Liber Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholocanae Ab anno Christi MCCCVII ad annum MCCCXXXIII

Historia Inquisitionis. Cum Subjungitur Liber Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholocanae Ab anno Christi MCCCVII ad annum MCCCXXXIII by Limborch, Philippi A.

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Historia Inquisitionis. Cum Subjungitur Liber Sententiarum Inquisitionis Tholocanae Ab anno Christi MCCCVII ad annum MCCCXXXIII
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Limborch, Philippi A.
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Thorn Books (United States)
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1638412839717
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Fine
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Amstelodami: Henricum Wetstenium, 1692. First edition. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. (16),384,(12),(8),397,(17) pp. Nine engraved plates. Contemporary vellum binding, leather lettering label, gilt. Title page printed in red and black, and with engraved vignette. Six of the engravings are full page plates, and three are double page (though two of the singles are also on one double page). Trace of wear to the vellum, esp., along the top of the rear board, else this is a fine copy with stunning plates. Graesse IV,212; van der Vekena 1875; Caillet 6693.
John Nash: The Painter as Illustrator

John Nash: The Painter as Illustrator by Lewis, John

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John Nash: The Painter as Illustrator
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Lewis, John
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Loxhill: Pendomer Press, 1978. First trade edition. Hardcover. Near fine/Fine. 4to. Brown cloth, gilt spine title. 136 pages. With a Foreword by Wilfrid Blunt. A near fine copy in a fine dustwrapper which is unclipped. Illustrated biography and containing a bibliography of books illustrated by Nash. .
The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton (with hand-colored illustrations)

The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton (with hand-colored illustrations) by Repton, Humphry; John Claudius Loudon (illustrator)

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The Landscape Gardening and Landscape Architecture of the Late Humphrey Repton (with hand-colored illustrations)
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Repton, Humphry; John Claudius Loudon (illustrator)
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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London: Printed for the Editor, 1840. First collected edition. Contemporary calf, rebacked with original spine laid down retaining one morocco label with the second replaced. All edges marbled. Marbled endpapers. Measuring 215 x 130mm and collating xxxi, [1], 619: bound without half title, else complete including 253 engraved illustrations, of which 181 are expertly hand-colored. A lovely, square copy with minimal foxing to preliminary and terminal leaves; remainder of textblock fresh. Contemporary ownership signature of J. Henry Baylis to front endpaper. An exceptional example of the scarce issue with colored plates, which was released at a price of 5/6d (compared to the standard issue price of 2/6d). The most recent colored copy on the market sold at Christie's in a modern binding in 2012. Housed in a custom clamshell. One of the rare hand colored copies of what Loudon hoped would be an extended series celebrating Repton's work, the present title ultimately stood alone with no further volumes printed. As it is, the impressive tome documents the historically important work of Humphry Repton, who actively engaged in "the principal styles and contemporary debates of landscape design," including "perspective tricks to disguise differing water levels, and instructions on the use of cattle as a natural measure of scale." It is both a textual and visual reminder of the innovations taking place in the 19th century, as a wider number of public and private spaces were engineered for human use and enjoyment. Provenance of the library of James Henry Baylis, architect and surveyor of Swansea, Wales. His most notable work was the design and construction of the Goat Street Synagogue, which stood for 82 years until it was destroyed during the 1941 "Three Nights Blitz.
The Pleasure Garden. An Illustrated History of British Gardening

The Pleasure Garden. An Illustrated History of British Gardening by Scott-James, Anne

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The Pleasure Garden. An Illustrated History of British Gardening
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Scott-James, Anne
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London: John Murray, 1977. First edition. Small quarto (9 1/16 x 6 1/2 inches; 231 x 165 mm.). One of ten copies specially bound by Zaehnsdorf in quarter green morocco, ruled in gilt, over green cloth boards. Vellum tips. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt with two raised bands and with Zaehnsdorf monogram in gilt at foot of spine. Top edge gilt. Olive green endpapers. Text illustrations. Housed in a fleece-lined green cloth slipcase. A Fine copy. "Of this edition 10 copies have been reserved by arrangement with the Publishers for fine binding by Zaehnsdorf. This is copy number 9 which has been specially bound for David Brass" (calligraphed on an inserted limitation leaf at front). Anne Scott-James was an English journalist and author who served as editor of Harper's Bazaar before beginning a well-regarded series of gardening books.
The Yearling

The Yearling by Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan

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The Yearling
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Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan
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New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Near Fine/Near Fine. First printing with Scribner "A" and seal printed on the copyright page. A Near Fine copy in like dust jacket. Publisher's cream linen boards. Toning to hinges and a bit of foxing to lower board. Dust jacket with a bit of chipping to edges and some minor foxing, still an appealing example. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings' beloved 1938 novel, set in rural Florida, The Yearling follows the story of Jody Baxter, a child who becomes friends with a fawn after his father kills the fawn's mother. The book was the best-selling novel the year it was released and would win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1939. Translated into over twenty languages, The Yearling was also adapted into a 1946 film starring Gregory Peck and Jane Wyman, who would both receive Academy Award nominations for their performances. "The thing about The Yearling, its great claim to distinction, is that it is able to make so much of simple, homely events" (contemporary New York Times review). The woodcut illustrations were completed by artist, author, and educator Edward Shenton (1895 - 1977). Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket.
The Ingoldsby Legends

The Ingoldsby Legends by [Rackham, Arthur] Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]

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The Ingoldsby Legends
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[Rackham, Arthur] Ingoldsby, Thomas [Richard Harris Barham]
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Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
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London: J.M. Dent & Co, 1907. Second (and best) trade edition. Large quarto. Original green cloth stamped in gilt. Pictorial endpapers. Mild wear, spine mildly sunned, but still an excellent copy in a later tan pictorial dust jacket printed in black. Twenty-four color plates tipped-in on brown stock with captioned tissue guards, twelve tinted plates, and sixty-six drawings in black and white. With the bookplate of Maude M. Monell on front paste-down. Written under the nom-de-plume of clergyman Richard Harris Barham, The Ingoldsby Legends was a collection of myths and ghost stories that blended humor with the grotesque. Largely composed in rhyme, the stories emphasize figures such as saints and gods; and they were published to delight a Victorian audience increasingly interested in sensationalist gothic literature. Arthur Rackham (1867-1939) is perhaps the most acclaimed and influential illustrators of the Golden Age of Illustration. A prolific artist even from his youth, Rackham got his start as an illustrator working for the Westminster Budget Newspaper (1892). Over the next few years, he took on more and more commissions for children's books, hitting his career high in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Rackham turned his imaginative pen to every classic-from Shakespeare to Dickens to Poe. Latimore and Haskell 30-31. Riall 83.
Etherization, with Surgical Remarks

Etherization, with Surgical Remarks by John C. Warren

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Etherization, with Surgical Remarks
Author
John C. Warren
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
Boston: William D. Ticknor, 1848. 4,100, 4 pp. A near fine copy and perhaps the true first with a four-page Ticknor catalog at the front dated October 1847. This copy never had a half title and is signed by George Gay and dated 1848. Gay was elected a visiting surgeon at the Massachusetts General Hospital in 1854 and died in 1882.
Diabolou Machia or Battle of the Dragon

Diabolou Machia or Battle of the Dragon by W.C.F. [Fowler, William Chancey

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Diabolou Machia or Battle of the Dragon
Author
W.C.F. [Fowler, William Chancey
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De Wolfe and Wood (United States)
Description
1885. Single sheet folded. Some staining. Fowler, a scholar and graduate of Yale in 1816, recounts in poem a brawl that Yale students had with local residents at Dragon, now a part of New Haven.
PORTRAIT OF BARLACH II

PORTRAIT OF BARLACH II by PANKOK, OTTO

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PORTRAIT OF BARLACH II
Author
PANKOK, OTTO
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L'Estampe Originale (United States)
Description
1943. Woodcut. Z.W.H. 176. Ed. of 50. Signed in pencil. Printed on heavy Bütten paper with deckled edge. 19 3/8 x 13.
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The Lady's Complete Guide; or, Cookery in all its Branches. Containing The most approved Receipts, confirmed by Observation and Practice; in every reputable English Book of Cookery now extant... Also The Complete Brewer... Likewise The Family Physician; By Mrs. Mary Cole, Cook to the Right Hon. The Earl of Drogheda. The third edition very much improved by Cole, Mary

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Seller: Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink
Title
The Lady's Complete Guide; or, Cookery in all its Branches. Containing The most approved Receipts, confirmed by Observation and Practice; in every reputable English Book of Cookery now extant... Also The Complete Brewer... Likewise The Family Physician; By Mrs. Mary Cole, Cook to the Right Hon. The Earl of Drogheda. The third edition very much improved
Author
Cole, Mary
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
London: G. Kearsley, 1791. Octavo (21 x 13 cm.). Ivi, 11-460 pages. Index. Third Edition, "very much improved". First published in 1788, The Lady's Complete Guide ran to 564 pages. The revised second and third editions were expanded in content, but were reset to allow more lines to a page; the second edition contained 564 pages and this third edition was "very much improved" according to the title page. The pioneering cookery book by Mary Cole (fl 1788-1791), the first in English that systematically ascribed recipes to their authors, where known. Cole believed previous cookery book writers had not 'candidly acknowledged their obligations'. Much of The Lady's Complete Guide was given to thirty chapters describing techniques and giving recipes for roasting, boiling, "made-dishes" (of beef, lamb, game etc.), frying, broiling, potting, fricassees, ragouts, soups, sauces, of Brewing and The Family Physician. Contemporary sheep, rebacked. Spine ruled in gilt, black morocco label lettered in gilt. Near fine. [Bitting, page 94 (citing the 1788 first edition); Oxford, page 118 (citing the 1789 second edition)].
Grand Reception of the Liquor Dealers, Brewers, and Bottlers Beneficial Association, of Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, February 2d., 1880

Grand Reception of the Liquor Dealers, Brewers, and Bottlers Beneficial Association, of Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, February 2d., 1880 by [Dance card – spirits dealers]

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Grand Reception of the Liquor Dealers, Brewers, and Bottlers Beneficial Association, of Philadelphia, at the Academy of Music, February 2d., 1880
Author
[Dance card – spirits dealers]
Seller
Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
Philadelphia, 1880. Champagne bottle-shaped die cut, (19 x 7 cm.), 12 pages, plus card cover. Chromolithograph illustrated wrappers, bound with a brass grommet. Decorative blue and white silk cord and tassel. The text outlines the Officer and Trustees, Conductors, The Programme (a series of Marches and Promenades, Quadrilles and Waltzes), Supper is served in the foyer. Fine.
Bought of H. Laughlin & Co., Variegated Rockingham and Yellow Ware, East Liverpool, O.

Bought of H. Laughlin & Co., Variegated Rockingham and Yellow Ware, East Liverpool, O. by [Billhead - Stoneware] H. Laughlin & Co

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Bought of H. Laughlin & Co., Variegated Rockingham and Yellow Ware, East Liverpool, O.
Author
[Billhead - Stoneware] H. Laughlin & Co
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
East Liverpool, OH, 1869. Printed billhead (42.5 x 17.3 cm.). Illustrated with small woodcuts of wares, printed on blue and red lined paper. Pre-populated with prices for Rockingham and Yellow ware products including: chambers, bowls, pie plates, nappie dishes, pitchers, rice dishes, jelly cans, stove tubs, spittoons, mugs, hanging baskets and more. This document predates the founding of Homer Laughlin China Company in East Liverpool, Ohio by two years. The purchase, handwritten in black ink, recounts purchase of Messrs. Ford and Perry. Also with stamp and note of payment received. Fold marks, otherwise fine. Handsome.
Réflexes et Réflexions Devant la Nappe

Réflexes et Réflexions Devant la Nappe by de Pomiane, Edouard; André Giroux (illustrator)

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Title
Réflexes et Réflexions Devant la Nappe
Author
de Pomiane, Edouard; André Giroux (illustrator)
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Rabelais - Fine Books on Food & Drink (United States)
Description
Paris: Laboratoires Guillaumin & Gérard; Editions Paul-Martial, 1940. Octavo in wrappers (22 x 16 cm.), 88, [8] pages. Illustrated cover and two-color illustrations. Advertisements. FIRST EDITION. An excerpt from de Pomiane's Radio Cuisine. Édouard de Pomiane (1875-1964) was the great French founder of "gastrotechnie", and professor at the Institute Scientifique d'Hygiène Alimentaire. Fine and largely unopened, in publisher's decorated wrappers; slight rubbing to top edge of wrapper, otherwise fine.
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REFINER'S FIRE by Helprin, Mark

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Title
REFINER'S FIRE
Author
Helprin, Mark
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977. 8vo. The second book and first novel by Helprin. If you started reading Helprin with Winter's Tale go back to his earlier books. You are in for a treat. A beautiful copy signed by Helprin in ink on the title page. Cloth - backed boards Very Good in Very Good dj
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STERLING SILVER WARES, ELECTRO PLATE, PATRIARCH PLATE AND PURITAN PEWTER by (Trade Catalog) (Hammered Pewter) Deykin & Harrison

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STERLING SILVER WARES, ELECTRO PLATE, PATRIARCH PLATE AND PURITAN PEWTER
Author
(Trade Catalog) (Hammered Pewter) Deykin & Harrison
Seller
Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
Birmingham: Deykin & Harrison Ltd., (circa 1920 ). An octavo bound in the original cloth-backed redpaper over stiff card, pictorial cover. This very scarce trade catalogue of 191 pages, plus index, represents the work of one of the most prestigious manufacturers of domestic metalware in Britain. The firm was established in 1781. This catalogue represents early twentieth century wares shown at Venetian Works, Jennens Row, Dale End, Birmingham. The city of Birmingham, well-known as one of the most important centers of metalwork throughout English history, contributed a wealth of artisans to the Arts and Crafts period. The "Puritan Pewter" line, with it's finely hammered finish, was one of the firm's most successful offerings, well-illustrated in this catalogue. There is some overall soiling and wear to the binding, but it remains a bright, sound copy of an elusive trade catalogue.
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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST by Hague,Michael De Beaumont, Marie Le Prince

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BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Author
Hague,Michael De Beaumont, Marie Le Prince
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
Description
(La Jolla, California): The Green Tiger Press, 1980. Quarto. Issued simultaneously with the hardbound edition, this copy is bound in wedgewood blue paper with raised cover title. Eighteen exquisite full-color tipped-in plates, including frontispiece, by this masterful American illustrator. A marvelous copy of an elegant book.
You Can't Win

You Can't Win by Black, Jack; Herrick, Robert (foreword).

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You Can't Win
Author
Black, Jack; Herrick, Robert (foreword).
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
A.L. Burt Publishers, 1928. Hardcover. Good. Green cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine, 394 pp. + ads. Spine lettering dulled and rubbed, joints exposed at title page and last index page, stain to p. 53/4. Autobiography of a thief and hobo, originally published in a series of articles in the San Francisco Call-Bulletin. Although Black accepts the fact that he would be better off if he had worked “at any useful occupationâ€, he is also content with his state of affairs: “I have no money, no wife, no auto. I have no dog. I have neither a radio set nor a rubber plantâ€"I have no troubles.†(p. 394) This book was one of the major literary influences on a young William S. Burroughs.
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The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine: Part III, Oct. 29-30,1998. Christie's auction catalogue. Hardcover by Christie's

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The Haskell F. Norman Library of Science & Medicine: Part III, Oct. 29-30,1998. Christie's auction catalogue. Hardcover
Author
Christie's
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
New York: Christie's, 1998.
Engraved Portrait

Engraved Portrait by Charleton, Walter

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Engraved Portrait
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Charleton, Walter
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
Description
Print: 185x135 mm. Mount: 195 x144 mm. Mounted on cardstock. Image worn, with repairs and paper flaws, small spot in top margin, soiling.
International Pop

International Pop by Alexander, Darsie, and Bartholomew Ryan

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Title
International Pop
Author
Alexander, Darsie, and Bartholomew Ryan
Seller
James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
ISBN
9781935963080
Condition
Fine
Description
Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2015. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Bound in black padded cloth with spine and cover stamped in white, cream, blue, and pale green. All edges pale green. A dazzling, eye-popping volume, brilliantly designed and full of fascinating art works largely unfamiliar to American audiences. With contributions from Erica Battle, Claudia Calirman, Charlotte Cotton, David Fehér, Ed Halter, Martin Harrison, María José Herrera, Hiroko Ikegami, Godfre Leung, Luigia Lonardelli, Tomáš Pospiszyl. 9 x 11 3/4 inches. 395 pages.
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SEADOGS: AN EPIC OCEAN OPERETTA by Wheeler, Lisa. Siegel, Mark (illustrator)

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SEADOGS: AN EPIC OCEAN OPERETTA
Author
Wheeler, Lisa. Siegel, Mark (illustrator)
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Johnnycake Books ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
NY: Atheneum, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/As New. Inscribed by artist Siegel to Caldecott Medal illustrator Marc Simont (1915 - 2013) with an original illustration on the ffe of a sea dog in ski cap with two thought bubbles: "Pour Marc Simont, un grand monsieur qui ne cesse jamais d'inspirer" and "The Philharmonc gets dressed - mon prefer" (in reference to the opera them of the book). Siegel then inscribes "With best regards" with a "wag wag" next to the tail of the sea dog. A charming inscription. Evidence of a hasty water stain as the lower quarter of the first signature has some modest buckling of the pages. Otherwise, an used book. Charming inscription from an up coming cartoonist/ illustrator to a master.
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Doctors Under Three Flags by ANDERSON, Fannie

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Title
Doctors Under Three Flags
Author
ANDERSON, Fannie
Seller
Argosy Book Store (United States)
Condition
very good(+)
Description
Detroit: Wayne State, 1951. hardcover. very good(+)/very good. 8 plates. 185pp. 8vo, green cloth, d.w. Detroit: Wayne U.P., (1951). First Ediiton. Page edges lightly foxed, still a very good(+) copy in a very good dust wrapper. The story of medicine in Detroit from 1701-1837, under French, British and American Rule.
The Indians of Manhattan Island and Vicinity

The Indians of Manhattan Island and Vicinity by SKINNER, Alanson

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The Indians of Manhattan Island and Vicinity
Author
SKINNER, Alanson
Seller
Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition
Some light foxing, loose in wrappers
Description
New York: The American Museum of Natural History, 1926. Some light foxing, loose in wrappers. 9.75 x 6.75 inches. Illustrated. Original wrappers. Fourth edition.

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