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Bakchesarian Fountain

Bakchesarian Fountain by PUSHKIN Alexander LEWIS William D.

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Bakchesarian Fountain
Author
PUSHKIN Alexander LEWIS William D.
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1849. First Edition. PUSHKIN, Alexander. The Bakchesarian Fountain. By Alexander Pooshkeen. And Other Poems, by Various Authors. Philadelphia: C. Sherman, 1849. 12mo, original tan printed paper wrappers respined and recornered; 72 pp. Housed in a custom clamshell box. $6200.First edition in English of Pushkin's popular third book.This translation of Bakhchisaraiskii Fontan (Moscow 1824) is one of the poet's first appearances in English, published 12 years after his death in a duel, preceded by G. Borrow's translation of The Talisman published in St. Petersburg in 1835. This edition stands as an important early example of American interest in Russian literature, interest which would blossom in the next half-century with the publication of works by Tolstoy, Gogol, Turgenev, Dostoevsky, and others. Translator William Lewis lived and worked in Russia in the early 1820s; during that time he became the friend of Nikolai Ivanovich Grech, editor of the Syn Otechestva (a weekly magazine), who introduced him into the literary group that met at the home of the poet Derzhavin. Twenty-five years after leaving Russia the present work was privately published and received an enthusiastic review from his friend Grech. Contains as well a section of ""Amatory and other Poems"" by P. Pelsky, Dmeetrief, Melaidinsky, N. M. Shatroff, Merzliakoff and Derzhavin. Translated from the original Russian by William D. Lewis. Kilgour 876 note. Line A12. Only minor marginal foxing and soiling to interior, inch of tape residue along spine edge of wrappers. An extremely good copy. Scarce.
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Life and Shape by NEUTRA Richard

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
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Life and Shape
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NEUTRA Richard
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
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1962. First Edition. Signed. NEUTRA, Richard. Life and Shape. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, (1962). Octavo, original green cloth, original dust jacket. $1100.First edition, association copy, inscribed by Neutra to the photographer Barbara Morgan, his colleague at UCLA, and her husband, the writer William Morgan, ""To Barbara Morgan and her husband—who have suffered making the best book about a man, who deserves only the third best—Most cordially and sincere wishes to them and theirs, Richard Neutra."" Additionally inscribed by the artist Annita Delano—another colleague of Morgan and Neutra at UCLA—""To Barbara Morgan and to William Morgan to my mind two of the happiest people I have ever known, Annita Delano.""Life and Shape summarizs the celebrated architect's beginnings, and his thoughts and reflections on future living and building. Photographer Barbara Morgan—co-founder of Aperture magazine—taught at UCLA along with Neutra and Delano in the 1920s. Morgan also at this time assisted her husband, the writer William Morgan, in photographing the modern architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and Richard Neutra, including a full documentation of the building of the Lovell House (hence Neutra's comment on their working on a book about him). Barbara Morgan went on to be renowned for her pictures of dancers. She and Delano co-curated an exhibition of Edward Weston's work at UCLA in 1927.Book very nearly fine, dust jacket near-fine with minor wear around spine ends, slightest toning to spine.
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2 Autograph letters signed to Martin Davis, plus file copies of Davis's replies by Rosser, J. Barkley

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2 Autograph letters signed to Martin Davis, plus file copies of Davis's replies
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Rosser, J. Barkley
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Jeremy Norman & Co., Inc. (United States)
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Madison, WI, 1983. Rosser, J. Barkley (1907-89). Two autograph letters signed to Martin Davis (1928-2023), together with Davis's file copies of his replies. 6pp. on 4 sheets total. 3 January - 23 February 1983. 282 x 220 mm. Light creasing but very good. From mathematical logician J. Barkley Rosser, known for the Kleene-Rosser paradox showing that Alonzo Church's original lambda-calculus was inconsistent; also for his part in the Church-Rosser theorem in lambda-calculus and for his proof of Rosser's theorem in number theory. His correspondent was Martin Davis, a mathematician and logician who made important contributions to computability theory. Davis's work on Hilbert's tenth problem-asking for a general algorithm to decide the solvability of Diophantine equations-led to the Matiyasevich-Robinson-Davis-Putman (MRDP) theorem implying that a solution to this problem is impossible. The correspondence offered here concerns Martin Davis's paper, "Why Gödel didn't have Church's Thesis" (Information and Control 54 [1982]: 3-24), a historical paper outlining the development of -definability and recursive function theory by Gödel, Church, Turing, Kleene, Post and others in the 1930s. Rosser, who had received a typescript version of Davis's paper from Kleene, objected to some of the paper's statements: "Steve Kleene lent me a copy of your article . . . Imagine my surprise when I read your Footnote 4 (on p. 30 of the typescript I have). You include me among the logicians who have seriously proposed a system of logic that later turned out to be inconsistent! What system do you have in mind? I find it hard to believe that anyone who found an inconsistency in a system which I had seriously proposed would fail to inform me of the matter . . ." Davis replied: "The system to which I referred is NF+AC which you very "seriously proposed" in your well known book Logic for Mathematicians. As I am sure you know very well, this system was proved inconsistent by Specker many years ago . . ." Rosser countered that "If you look on p. 512 of 'Logic for Mathematicians,' you will find that I did NOT propose NF+AC as a foundation for mathematics . . . Since I explicitly refrained from assuming AC, and stressed repeatedly that many uses of AC can be replaced by weaker versions or avoided altogether, it is disheartening to be accused of espousing AC . . ." Several weeks later Davis responded: "I answered your first letter quite hastily, not wanting to leave it while I was abroad . . . you are quite right to object that you had never proposed NF+AC as a 'foundation for mathematics' . . . Nevertheless, I hold to my original statement that placed your name on the 'honor roll' of those 'seriously proposing' systems of symbolic logic that later turned out to be inconsistent . . .. .
PICTURESQUE EUROPE

PICTURESQUE EUROPE by TAYLOR, Bayard

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PICTURESQUE EUROPE
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TAYLOR, Bayard
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Boston Book Company (United States)
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1876.
A Letter from Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. to the Commissioners of Public Accounts, Relative to some Observations which may be judged to imply Censure on the late Commanders in Chief of His Majesty's Army in North America

A Letter from Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. to the Commissioners of Public Accounts, Relative to some Observations which may be judged to imply Censure on the late Commanders in Chief of His Majesty's Army in North America by Clinton, Henry

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A Letter from Lieut. Gen. Sir Henry Clinton, K.B. to the Commissioners of Public Accounts, Relative to some Observations which may be judged to imply Censure on the late Commanders in Chief of His Majesty's Army in North America
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Clinton, Henry
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John Windle Antiquarian Bookseller (United States)
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1784. London: J. Debrett, 1784. Slim 8vo, 31, [1, publisher's ads] pp. Unopened and untrimmed; stitched as issued. Wrappers toned, dealer marks on upper wrapper, else fine. § First edition. Clinton's vindication of his expenditures of public money while in command of the British army during the American Revolution. Howes C494.
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The Morleys - Young Upstarts on the Southwest Frontier by Cleveland, Norman and George Fitzpatrick

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The Morleys - Young Upstarts on the Southwest Frontier
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Cleveland, Norman and George Fitzpatrick
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Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
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Very fine
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Albuquerque, New Mexico: Calvin Horn, Publisher, 1971 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. Inscribed by Author(s). First edition. Presentation inscription, signed by the author, Norman Cleaveland. xi, [1], 270pp. Nineteen vintage photographs, map endpapers. Notes, bibliography, index. Red cloth. A very fine copy with slightly chipped pictorial dust jacket. William Raymond Morley (1846-1883) was a railroad locator. In the Civil War, Morley was responsible for restoring the Chattanooga and Atlanta railroad line for Sherman. He then was manager for the Maxwell land grant in New Mexico and briefly editor of the Cimarron, New Mexico News and Press, had run-ins with Clay Allison. Morley then joined the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, working as a line locater. He became "the man who could locate a line through wild country better than most rail pioneers." Morley was a significant factor in the Santa Fe's seizure of a route over Raton Pass into New Mexico, as well as the Royal Gorge route along the upper Arkansas River near present Canon City. Ultimately Morely accidently shot himself with his Winchester..
The Luftwaffe From Training School To the Front: An Illustrated Study, 1933-1945
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The Luftwaffe From Training School To the Front: An Illustrated Study, 1933-1945 by Michael Meyer; Paul Stipdonk

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The Luftwaffe From Training School To the Front: An Illustrated Study, 1933-1945
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Michael Meyer; Paul Stipdonk
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Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
ISBN
9780887409240
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Fine
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Schiffer Publishing, 1997-01-06. First Edition. hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. 9x1x11. Beige cloth boards under illustrated dust jacket. Slight wear to edges of jacket.

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