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VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DE CONSTANTINOPLE ET DES RIVES DU BOSPHORE. [A PICTURESQUE VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE SHORES OF THE BOSPHORUS] by (CONSTANTINOPLE - EARLY 19TH CENTURY TRAVEL TO, FACSIMILE PUBLICATION). MELLING, ANTOINE IGNACE

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Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts

Title: VOYAGE PITTORESQUE DE CONSTANTINOPLE ET DES RIVES DU BOSPHORE. [A PICTURESQUE VOYAGE TO CONSTANTINOPLE AND THE SHORES OF THE BOSPHORUS]
Author: (CONSTANTINOPLE - EARLY 19TH CENTURY TRAVEL TO, FACSIMILE PUBLICATION). MELLING, ANTOINE IGNACE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Bern: Ertug & Kocabiyuk, 2002. No. 46 OF 50 SPECIALLY BOUND COPIES (of a total edition of 350). 670 x 508 mm. (26 3/8 x 20"). 3 p.l., 10 pp., [63] leaves. Publisher's scarlet morocco by Buchbinderei Burkhardt AG, covers with gilt-rolled border, cornerpieces tooled in gilt, upper cover with gilt calligraphic Arabic centerpiece, lower cover with gilt central heraldic device, marbled endleaves, all edges gilt. With a portrait frontispiece of Emperor Selim III, 48 DOUBLE-PAGE PLATES, AND THREE DOUBLE-PAGE MAPS. ◆A virtually as-new copy. This is one of the deluxe copies of a modern facsimile of Melling's massive and magnificently illustrated work devoted to 18th century Constantinople, a book that provided the earliest interior views and plans of the harems and palaces of Sultan Selim III when it was published in 1819. The illustrations remain the best (and certainly most attractive) record we have of the city during this era in its history. Our edition was produced from a copy of the elephant folio first printing in the collection of the facsimile's publisher, Ahmet Ertug, with images faithfully reproduced in their original mammoth size (650 x 970 mm.). After his arrival in Constantinople in 1795, architect and painter Antoine Ignace Melling (1763-1831) was appointed imperial architect by Selim III. In the course of his duties, he designed and landscaped a seaside palace for Selim's sister, Princess Hatice, and produced these striking panoramic views of the city and its environs. After completing the palace and a number of other building projects for Selim, he returned to Paris and in 1804 issued a prospectus for this work. He established an engraving studio in 1809 to reproduce these drawings and began publishing the completed prints as a series of fascicles that were sent to subscribers. The last one appeared in 1819. The outstanding success of an exhibition of the paintings on which the "Voyage Pittoresque" was based earned Melling the rank of painter to the Empress Josephine. When "Voyage Pittoresque" was originally published, booksellers in England sold copies for £84, a huge sum for a book at the time. The original edition in pleasing condition now fetches between $75,000 and $100,000. Our handsomely bound, actual size facsimile offers an attractively priced alternative..

THE STRANGER IN FRANCE; OR, A TOUR FROM DEVONSHIRE TO PARIS by (BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S BOARDS). (TRAVEL - FRANCE). CARR, JOHN, SIR

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Title: THE STRANGER IN FRANCE; OR, A TOUR FROM DEVONSHIRE TO PARIS
Author: (BINDINGS - PUBLISHER'S BOARDS). (TRAVEL - FRANCE). CARR, JOHN, SIR
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: Printed for J. Johnson, 1807. Second Edition. 225 x 140 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 1/2"). [iv], 373, [1] pp. Original blue paper boards and paper backstrip, spine with original printed paper label, EDGES UNTRIMMED. With 12 aquatint plates after sketches by Carr. A Large Paper Copy. First page of text with contemporary ink inscription reading "Ballygarth House." Lowndes I, 377 (1st ed.). Boards with a couple of snags and faint stains, corners minimally rubbed, one plate with vague offsetting, but AN EXCEPTIONALLY FINE COPY, showing very few signs of use, inside or out. In its remarkably well-preserved original boards, this is a beautiful copy of a popular travel narrative. Sir John Carr (1772-1832) had originally trained as a lawyer, but after visiting the Continent for his health, made his career as a travel writer instead. The 1803 publication of the first edition of the present work launched him into fame as a writer. His subsequent works proved just as popular, and after the 1806 publication of "The Stranger in Ireland," he was knighted by John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, then Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Afterward, Lord Byron (in a suppressed verse from "Childe Harolde") appropriately called him "Green Erin's [i.e. Ireland's] knight and Europe's wandering star." Our copy's inscription indicates it belonged to the library of Ballygarth House, very probably referring to Ballygarth Castle in County Meath, Ireland, the seat of the Pepper family, which dates from the 14th century. While not a rare book, it is uncommonly encountered in its original publisher's binding, particularly in such fine condition as seen here. Even the richly printed aquatints, which would typically be found foxed or causing offsetting, are in virtually perfect condition..

Katharine. A Travesty by Bangs, John Kendrick

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Title: Katharine. A Travesty
Author: Bangs, John Kendrick
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: [Gillis Bros. & Turnuré, Art Age Press], 1888. First edition. A travesty of The Taming of the Shrew. First published edition, greatly enlarged from a rare 23-page pamphlet privately printed the same year, second state of the text. The first book Bangs published under his own name. Original flexible black leather, gilt, gilt edges. Slight wear to edges. Presumably a presentation binding (normal copies were bound in wrappers over boards). Inscribed by Bangs on May 21, 1888, as is a similarly bound copy at AAS. BAL 699.

Horror A Vacui (Signed) by SHAW, Jimmy and Benjamin Weissman

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Title: Horror A Vacui (Signed)
Author: SHAW, Jimmy and Benjamin Weissman
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Faint soiling to the covers, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.
Description: Vienna: Galerie Krinzinger, 1992. Faint soiling to the covers, else near fine in illustrated wrappers.. First Edition. Octavo. SIGNED by Benjamin Weissman and Jim Shaw. Collaborative artist's book published in the occasion of the important group exhibition of Los Angeles artists LAX, at Galerie Krinzinger, 1992.

The Fijians. A Study of the Decay of Custom by Thomson, Basil

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Title: The Fijians. A Study of the Decay of Custom
Author: Thomson, Basil
Seller: Ten Pound Island Book Co. (United States)
Description: London: William Heinemann, 1908. b/w photo plates. xviii, (2), 396 pp. First edition of a book on the island and its inhabitants by a very forward thinking former colonial official who lived with the Fijians for ten years. In his presentation of the history and lives of these people, Thomson calls into question Victorian assumptions about civilization, morality and racial superiority. Bound in original cloth, lightly rubbed. Inscribed by author.

Rosa Luxemburg Karl Liebknecht Franz Mehring. Den Führern des Spartakusbundes und Gründern der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands by Zetkin, Clara

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Title: Rosa Luxemburg Karl Liebknecht Franz Mehring. Den Führern des Spartakusbundes und Gründern der Kommunistischen Partei Deutschlands
Author: Zetkin, Clara
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
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Description: Moscow, Leningrad: Verlagsgenossenschaft Ausländischer Arbeiter in der UDSSR, 1934. First edition. Softcover. g to vg. Octavo. 172(1)pp. original tan and brown wraps with brown and reverse tan lettering on cover, brown on spine. Frontispiece. Foreword by Karl Schmückle and various contributions by Clara Zetkin on Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Franz Mehring, Luxemburg's sentencing, a commemoration of Luxemburg, on the revolutionary fights and fighters 1919, fighters and leaders (1920), Luxemburg's Junius Brochure, Luxemburg's life's work, a foreword to a Liebknecht biography, and an address to the Lenin-Liebknecht-Luxemburg Memorial of the Communist Party in Birkenwerder. Illustrated with portraits of Luxemburg, Liebknecht, Mehring, and Leo Jogiches-Tyszka. Text in German. Wraps with light wear along edges, small chips and slightly rubbed. Wraps in overall good, interior in very good condition.

The language of life; an introduction to the science of genetics. by BEADLE, George (1903-1989); Muriel (1915-1994).

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Title: The language of life; an introduction to the science of genetics.
Author: BEADLE, George (1903-1989); Muriel (1915-1994).
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Garden City, New York:: Doubleday, 1966., 1966. 8vo. x, 242 pp. Figs., index. Cloth, dust-jacket; jacket with slight edge wear, but a very good copy. George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. "Organisms' metabolism–the chemical processes within its cells–are regulated by substances called enzymes. George Beadle and Edward Tatum proved in 1941 that our genetic code‚ our genes, govern the formation of enzymes. They exposed a type of mold to x-rays, causing mutations, or changes in its genes. They later succeeded in proving that this led to definite changes in enzyme formation. The conclusion was that each enzyme corresponds to a particular gene." – Nobel Prize. Muriel Beadle was married to George Beadle.

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