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Irene: A Tragedy by JOHNSON Samuel

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Seller: Bauman Rare Books
Title
Irene: A Tragedy
Author
JOHNSON Samuel
Seller
Bauman Rare Books (United States)
Description
1749. JOHNSON, Samuel. Irene: A Tragedy. As it is Acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury-Lane. London: Printed for R. Dodsley, 1749. Octavo, early 20th-century full brown calf gilt, raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Housed in a custom slipcase. $1500.First edition of Johnson’s historical tragedy, written early in his career and produced at Drury Lane Theatre in February 1749, handsomely bound by Bedford.Recognized as ""one of the most distinguished writers of any age or country,"" Samuel Johnson wrote Irene early in his career, in the years from 1736-7, but it was not published until 1749 (Allibone I:971). At that time, when Johnson's friend and former pupil David Garrick was ""firmly established in a position of power in the theatrical world, Johnson's thoughts naturally began to turn back towards his own long-buried ambitions as a dramatic writer."" Johnson decided to trust Irene to Garrick, who then produced the play for the Drury Lane Theater in February 1749, under the title Mahomet and Irene. Based on a story from Knolles' General History of the Turks, Irene's final act has the Turkish Sultan Mahomet execute his favorite mistress so that he ""can prove to his followers that he has not gone soft under the influence of his love for a Christian."" For Johnson, the play's production was a cause ""to celebrate… in style. Perhaps it was a reaction from the long, dusty hours of work on the Dictionary, but he was at the time in a mood to go into society, to appear in public, even to act the part of a celebrity in that gay and rather raffish world of 'players and painted stage"" (Wain, 69, 143, 147). With half title and rear advertisement leaf. Featuring woodcut-engraved vignette on title page, engraved ornamental initials, head- and tailpieces. Courtney & Smith, 24. Rothschild 1231. Lowndes, 1218. Bookplate of noted collector Frank Brewer Bemis.Interior fine, expert repairs to joints and spine ends, A beautiful bound copy.
The History of the Rugby School

The History of the Rugby School by Ackermann, Rudolph

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The History of the Rugby School
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Ackermann, Rudolph
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Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description
London: R. Ackermann, 1816. First edition. Quarto, 14 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches. Original boards with printed title information on the front board, roan back. Title-page, 34 text pages and five colored engravings. Excellent, clean copy, with mild offset from the plates to facing pages. See Tooley 3.
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Grundzuge de Percussion und Auscultation by Zehetmayer, F - CARDIAC DISEASE

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Grundzuge de Percussion und Auscultation
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Zehetmayer, F - CARDIAC DISEASE
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Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition
A very good copy with some wear to the extremities.
Description
Vienna: Braumuller & Seidel, 1843. First Edition.. orig. publisher's wrappers.. A very good copy with some wear to the extremities.. 8vo. An elaborate manual for the self instruction of physicians in percussion. A very detailed text devoted to lung disease and the use of percussion in to diagnose myriad ailments related to the lungs.
The Court of Appeals of Maryland, A History

The Court of Appeals of Maryland, A History by Bond, Carroll

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The Court of Appeals of Maryland, A History
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Bond, Carroll
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The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
ISBN
9781584775812
Description
2006. ISBN-13: 9781584775812; ISBN-10: 1584775815. Bond, Carroll T. The Court of Appeals of Maryland, A History. Originally published: Baltimore: The Barton-Gillet Company, 1928. iii, 214 pp. Plates. Reprinted 2006 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584775812. ISBN-10: 1584775815. Hardcover. New. $85. * With its origins in the seventeenth century, the Maryland Court of Appeals is one of the oldest in the United States. Located in the middle of the east coast, it was confronted with most of the key legal issues that affected the colonies and early United States. Bond's was the first history of the court from its origins around 1649 to the adoption of the state's current constitution in 1867. A valuable study, it is based almost entirely on primary sources. Bond [1873-1943] was the Chief Justice of the Court from 1924 to the end of his life.
The Laws of the Earliest English Kings

The Laws of the Earliest English Kings by Attenborough, F.L., Editor and Translator

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The Laws of the Earliest English Kings
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Attenborough, F.L., Editor and Translator
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The Lawbook Exchange Ltd (United States)
ISBN
9781584775836
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2017. ISBN-13: 9781584775836; ISBN-10: 1584775831. Attenborough, F.L., Editor and Translator. The Laws of the Earliest English Kings. Originally published: Cambridge: University Press, 1922. xii, 256 pp. Reprinted 2006, 2017 by The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd. ISBN-13: 9781584775836. ISBN-10: 1584775831. Hardcover. New. $38.95 * The most impressive contribution to the bibliography of Anglo-Saxon legal sources since Thorpe and Liebermann, this edition contains the texts of the Kentish laws, the laws of Ine and Alfred the Great, treaties with the Danes, and the laws of Edward the Elder and Aethelstan. The texts are in Anglo-Saxon with English translations. (Latin texts are used if the Anglo-Saxon originals were lost.) "Mr. Attenborough has done a very useful work in providing a critical translation of the Anglo-Saxon dooms for English-speaking students who are unable, or do not go far enough to find it needful, to make use of Liebermann's great and apparently final edition. Not that advanced scholars can afford to neglect Mr. Attenborough, for he shows himself fully capable of independent judgement and makes many observations deserving their attention": Frederick Pollock, Law Quarterly Review 38 (1922) 511. Frederick Levi Attenborough [1887-1973] was the principal of University College, Leicester.
Grey Towers: A Campus Novel

Grey Towers: A Campus Novel by (Anonymous)

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Grey Towers: A Campus Novel
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(Anonymous)
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Very Good+ in Very Good dj
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Chicago: Covici-McGee Co.. Very Good+ in Very Good dj. 1923. 2nd printing. Hardcover. NOISBN . [spine slightly turned, a bit of dust-soiling to top edge, a couple of lightly bumped corners, one-time owner's address label on front pastedown; jacket moderately edgeworn, spine browned, small chip at top of rear panel; jacket a teensy bit shorter than the book, apparently made that way]. "A novel of protest, written by a young apostle of revolt, against the present system of education in the colleges." Although the author is not identified by gender, the book seems to have a definite feminist slant, telling of the travails of a young graduate student teaching Freshman English while dealing with "the undercurrent of malice and politics" at the university. She finds that "the departments are run by old men who have lost touch with the students," and feels herself "powerless to defeat the red-tape and apathetic disregard of the older men." Neither the city nor the specific university in the book are identified, but add the Chicago imprint to the description of the school "on the shore of the great lake, in the broad Middle-West," do the math and get back to me about where YOU think it is. (The author of the 1962 study "The College Novel in America" speculated that the book was "possibly by Zoë Flannagan," but gives no indication who the hell "Zoë Flannagan" might have been. Thanks for nothing.) .

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