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Pöemes Choisis

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Seller: James Cummins Bookseller

Title: Pöemes Choisis
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller (United States)
Condition: Contemporary red morocco with onlaid green covers, spine gilt, a.e.g
Description: Paris, 1809. Manuscript. 390 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Contemporary red morocco with onlaid green covers, spine gilt, a.e.g. Manuscript. 390 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Finely lettered manuscript collection of French poems and discourses on poetry, comprising some 29 selections, with an index indicateing how many verses in each item, and noting a total of 6698 verses. At the foot of each section, the author and date of copying are given. Includes passages from Voltaire, Chenier, Thomas, and others, and a "Discours sur la manière de lire les vers" by François de Neufchateau An attractive commonplace book from the early nineteenth century.

The Good Soldier's Lunch Call

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Title: The Good Soldier's Lunch Call
Seller: Eclectibles (United States)
Condition: Very good to near-fine.
Description: [Los Angeles, California]: Southern Counties Gas Company, 1944. Very good to near-fine.. A nutrition guide for American housewives, offering tips and tricks for nourishing the family during the Second World War. Published "as a wartime service with compliments of Southern Counties Gas Company", and issued at a time when wartime rations were in full effect. Ingredients such as sugar and meat were rationed to help feed the boys abroad, so housewives needed to be resourceful and economical with their grocery purchases and meal planning. This booklet includes recipes, nutrition advice by food group, meal planning advice, and plenty of illustrations of happy boys and girls. Image on front shows a brother and sister playing soldier and saluting the viewer. Single vol. (8.5" by 5.5"), pp. [20], illus., original illus. self wrps, printed in yellow and black.

Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis by [COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH]

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Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts

Title: Pharmacopoeia Collegii Regii Medicorum Edinburgensis
Author: [COLLEGE OF EDINBURGH]
Seller: Rootenberg Rare Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute, 1792. Contemporary tree calf, joints worn and cracked; waterstain to top corner of first quire. From the library of Nicholas I. Quackenbos with his small book label on the paste-down and his signature dated 1802 on title. Eighth Edinburgh edition. The Edinburgh Pharmacopoeia, compiled by the Royal College of Physicians, basically consists of a catalogue of drugs and preparations. It acted to standardize medical prescriptions and the substances used in treatment. The work first appeared in 1699; this is the eighth edition to have been printed in Edinburgh. The recipes incorporate everything from herbal remedies used by the ancients to the animal substances so popular at the time, and other ingredients in keeping with the latest researches in science and chemistry. Among the materials used are dired goats' blood, dried bees, crabs' claws and skins of toads.

All the Material Facts in the History of Epidemic Cholera:; A report of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, to the Board of Health by Bell, John ; and D. Francis Condie

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Title: All the Material Facts in the History of Epidemic Cholera:; A report of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, to the Board of Health
Author: Bell, John ; and D. Francis Condie
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: Philadelphia: Thomas Desilver, 1832. Second edition, enlarged and improved. Original cloth backed printed boards, 188 pp. Light foxing and browning; very good copy.

Aspects of Quantum Theory by Edited by Abdus Salam and E.P. Wigner

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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA

Title: Aspects of Quantum Theory
Author: Edited by Abdus Salam and E.P. Wigner
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Cambridge University Press, 1972. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A very sharp copy of the 1972 1st edition. Tight and Near Fine (light spotting along the top-edge and the fore-edge) in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket, with very light traces of soiling to the rear panel. Octavo, this volume created to honor the 70th birthday of Paul Dirac, one of the great figures in the field of Quantum Mechanics.

Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics. Volume XXIII (23), January - June 1869 by [Whitman, Walt; Harriet Beecher Stowe; et. al.]

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Title: Atlantic Monthly: A Magazine of Literature, Art, and Politics. Volume XXIII (23), January - June 1869
Author: [Whitman, Walt; Harriet Beecher Stowe; et. al.]
Seller: The Kelmscott Bookshop (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Fields, Osgood, and Co, 1869. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. Includes the first appearance of Whitman's poem "Proud Music of the Sea-Storm" on pages 199 - 203. Also includes work by John Burroughs, Oliver Wendell Holmes, J. G. Whittier, and Harriet Beecher Stowe. Bound in three quarter brown leather with maroon cloth boards and gilt title to spine. Rubbing and wear to leather on corners, hinges, bands, and edges. Bookplate of "Richmond Library" to front pastedown. Tear to edge of front endpaper. Marbled endpapers. Occasional spots of soiling to interior, but clean overall. 772 pages. PER/060718.

HARVESTING EXCELLENCE by Ducasse, Alain

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Title: HARVESTING EXCELLENCE
Author: Ducasse, Alain
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Condition: Blue boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper
Description: New York: Assouline Publishing, 2000. Hardcover. Blue boards. Near fine, in very good dust wrapper. 240 pages. 31.5 x 24 cm. Presentation copy, signed by Ducasse on the half title page. Gorgeous color photography by Axel Icard. Alain Ducasse traveled throughout the United States to sample the agricultural abundance found throughout this country. A true love letter to the food produced in the US. Interior pristine, board clean, corners bumped. Dust wrapper lightly soiled. Covered in protective mylar.

The Life of Musorgsky by Emerson, Caryl

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Title: The Life of Musorgsky
Author: Emerson, Caryl
Seller: Swan's Fine Books (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: (Cambridge): Cambridge University Press, 1999. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine/near fine. First printing, octavo size, 194 pp. "Modest Musorgsky is Russia's greatest musical dramatist. When he died in 1881 in St. Petersburg at the age of forty-two, in poverty and relative obscurity, he was known for a single opera, 'Boris Godunov', and a handful of eccentric 'realistic' songs. "In this brief biography, Caryl Emerson amends many of the canonical interpretations of Musorgksy as 'victim,', 'martyr,' and 'savage genius.' If his life was tragic it is not only because he was misunderstood but also because he was impoverished....[t]hese deprivations were instrumental in shaping his vision...." (n.b., from jacket flap). ___DESCRIPTION: Bound in full textured paper over boards, silver lettering and green rules stamped onto the spine, some black-and-white reproductions of photographs and illustrations throughout; octavo size (8 5/8" by 5 1/2"), 194 pp. In publisher's jacket with illustration on the front panel, portrait of Musorgsky on back panel, unclipped (and unpriced), summary on front flap and short author bio on back flap. ___CONDITION: Volume fine, the boards clean, straight corners without rubbing, a strong, square text block with solid hinges, the interior is clean and bright, and entirely free of prior owner markings; clean and as new. The jacket near fine, clean and without sunning, with truly minimal edgewear (mostly at the head and tail of the spine). ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard does not always cover costs; please inquire for details. ___Swan's Fine Books is pleased to be a member of the ABAA, ILAB, and IOBA and we stand behind every book we sell. Please contact us with any questions you may have, we are here to help.

New England's Prospect. by William Wood.

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Title: New England's Prospect.
Author: William Wood.
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Condition: Bound in publisher's brown cloth boards in d/j. Very good condition.
Description: Amherst: University of Amherst Press, 1977. Bound in publisher's brown cloth boards in d/j. Very good condition. "the first book to provide reliable eye-witness information about the Massachusetts Bay Colony".. 23 cm. 132 pp

Patrick Wilson by WILSON, Patrick and Lily Wei

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Title: Patrick Wilson
Author: WILSON, Patrick and Lily Wei
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780997945447
Description: New York: Ameringer McEnery Yohe, 2017. First edition. Oblong hardcover. 68 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran April 27 through May 26, 2017. Text by Lily Wei. Includes 30 color plates. A fine copy in illustrated boards. No dust jacket as issued. A nicely printed catalog.

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