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[COOKERY & WINE]. Lodi del porco, opera piacevole e ridicolosa. Nella quale à pieno si descrive la perfezzione, la bontà, l’eccelenza, l’industria, la magnanimità, la valorosità, e la fierezza del porco. Nuovamente composta per Ieronimo Berselli bolognese by Berselli, Geronimo

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Title: [COOKERY & WINE]. Lodi del porco, opera piacevole e ridicolosa. Nella quale à pieno si descrive la perfezzione, la bontà, l’eccelenza, l’industria, la magnanimità, la valorosità, e la fierezza del porco. Nuovamente composta per Ieronimo Berselli bolognese
Author: Berselli, Geronimo
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: Firenze: Stampata in Bologna con licenza de’Superiori et restampata in Firenze, 1592. 8vo. 145 x 95 mm., [5 2/4 x 4 inches]. [4] leaves. Title printed with an typographical border. Bound in recent half red morocco over marbled paper boards, title gilt on spine. A fine copy. Originally published in 1590, this is the second edition of this rare poem in praise of the pork. Written in the form of a eulogy the author, praises the part of the pig and briefly discusses their preparation and the delicate flavor that each can achieve under the direction of a master chef. The author is unknown other than for this publication, and it may be surmised that having been originally published in Bologna, its’ publication is a celebration of the quality of the beast and many gifts if offers to a hungry and adoring public. This title is cited in the Italian Union Catalogue (SBN ICCU) but only the 1590 edition and specific copy is listed. It does not appear in OCLC or NUC. See Westbury, Handlist of Italian Cookery Books, p. 30, listing only the 1592 edition. Not cited in Vicaire or Biting. Maria Paleari Henssler cites the title in her book Bibliografia latino-italiana di gastronomia, p. 87 but no location is listed. This is probably the Westbury copy! .

Dissertazione sopra la Porpora Antica e sopra la Scoperta della Porpora ne'Murici. Scritta nell'Occazione di Rispondere alle Critiche del Dr. Ambrogio Fusinieri by Bizio, Bartolommeo

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Title: Dissertazione sopra la Porpora Antica e sopra la Scoperta della Porpora ne'Murici. Scritta nell'Occazione di Rispondere alle Critiche del Dr. Ambrogio Fusinieri
Author: Bizio, Bartolommeo
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: Venezia: Tipografia di Gio Cecchini e Comp., 1843. 8vo. 225 x 150 mm., [8 ¾ x 6 inches]. 112 pp. Original blue paper, printed wrappers, stitched as issued; front wrapper with some creases and the spine with some rubbing, otherwise sound and attractive. First and only edition of Bartolommeo Bizio's response to the work of Dr. Ambrogio Fusinieri's essay on the creation of the color purple from the internal organs of mollusks found in abundance in the Mediterranean Sea. Bizio relies on the writings of Aristotle and Pliny and provides a detailed description of the variety of mollusks described by the ancients and the methods used to render the liquor from the shellfish. He follows this with details describing the difficult process required to produce the color purple for use by painters and cloth makers in the ancient world. Called Royal Purple, this pigment was a rare and valuable color thus making it both rare and expensive. Carlo Piersanti and Ugo Enrico Paoli, "Porpora". Enciclopedia Italiani, (1935). OCLC lists copies at Berkeley and the Field Museum in Chicago. NUC cites only the Berkeley copy. ICCU list 10 copies in Italian libraries.

POEMS by (BINDINGS - BENNETT). TENNYSON, ALFRED

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Title: POEMS
Author: (BINDINGS - BENNETT). TENNYSON, ALFRED
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: London: George Bell & Sons, 1905. No. 2 OF 75 NUMBERED COPIES printed on Japanese Vellum. 220 x 145 mm. (8 3/4 x 5 3/4"). 1 p.l., x, 402 pp., [3] leaves. LOVELY SCARLET MOROCCO BY THE BENNETT BOOK STUDIOS (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in), covers with gilt-ruled border and floral cornerpieces surrounding sprays of roses with gilt stems and leaves and white leather onlaid flowers with gilt detailing, raised bands, compartments with gilt lettering or with central gilt flower surrounded by a dense border of gilt floral tools, gilt-ruled turn-ins, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. In a (slightly faded) red oil cloth dust wrapper and felt-lined slipcase. With 18 full-page illustrations and numerous vignettes by Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale. ◆THE BINDING VIRTUALLY AS NEW, AND THE CONTENTS JUST AS GOOD. Offered in an elegant and untouched onlaid binding, this is a deluxe edition on luxurious paper, containing some of Tennyson' best-known poems, with illustrations by a pioneering woman artist. The binding is the fine work of Bennett Book Studios, established in New York in the late 1920s by bookman and binder Whitman Bennett. This workshop established a reputation for transforming rare books sold by Bennett from drab to desirable "Bennett copies." When Bennett (1884-1968) developed health issues in the late 1940s, his son Josiah Quincy Bennett took over the bindery and ran it from 1946 to 1950. The Pre-Raphaelite-influenced illustrations here are by painter and watercolorist Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (1872-1945). She began her studies at the Crystal Palace School of Arts before being admitted to the Royal Academy of Arts in 1897; by the following year, DNB notes, "she published her first illustrations, line drawings for Joseph Arthur Gibbs's 'A Cotswold Village' (1898)," becoming one of the few women doing commercial illustration work. Elected an associate of the Royal Society of Painters in Water Colours in 1901, she became the first woman member of the Institute of Painters in Oils the following year. Soon, she was a sought-after book illustrator, producing both line drawings (as here) and watercolors that would be reproduced as color plates. Although it does not bear any ex-libris, this perfectly preserved volume comes from the collection of American bibliophile and long-standing Grolier Club member David Allen Fraser (1911-2003)..

The Principles and Practice of Medicine by OSLER, William

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Title: The Principles and Practice of Medicine
Author: OSLER, William
Seller: Bull's Head Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1899. Third edition. 8vo. 1181, [1], [2, ads] pp. Publisher's green cloth, rebacked, ex-library with spine marking crudely effaced; book-plate Presentation copy, inscribed "A.J. Nellis with kind regards of Wm Osler. 5.25.00.""Oslers textbook was the best English work on medicine of its time" (Garrison-Morton). This book went through sixteen editions in its fifty-five years in print and gained and maintained a place in English, American, and even continental practice only comparable with that held by the treatise of Sir Thomas Watson (1843) in the preceding decades. The clear, concise, attractive presentation and the many citations from history and the classics gave it a unique place among scientific books with an essentially literary flavor (Golden & Roland, p. 136) For a discussion of the third edition, see Richard Golden, A History of William Osler's The Principles and Practice of Medicine (Montreal, 2004), pp. 68-71. REFERENCE: Bibliotheca Osleriana 3546 (& 3544 for Oslers account of writing the book); Garrison-Morton 2231

Plafond- und Wanddecorationen des XVI. bis XIX. Jahrhunderts by Albert, Igl

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Title: Plafond- und Wanddecorationen des XVI. bis XIX. Jahrhunderts
Author: Albert, Igl
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
Condition: g
Description: Wien: Eduard Hölzel, 1886. Softcover. g. Half-cloth over heavy cardboard portfolio of the period. String-ties have been added, and taped on inside of front board. Complete in six parts with original wrappers and "Prospect" for each part. Illustrated with 24 captioned chromolithographs in vibrant colors of ceiling- and wall decorations from the 16th - 19th centuries by various Austrian architects (* see below). Each plate accompanied by text on separate leaves. "Herausgegeben von Eduard Hölzel's Kunstanstalt und Bildhauer Reinhold Völkel in Wien. Chromolithographien nach Entwürfen und Aufnahmen hervorragender österreichischer Künstler." Printed label and written inventory number on front board. Age wear, scuffing and some staining on boards. Pulling and minor closed tears to wrappers, some repaired with gray tape on fore-edge. Stamp of "Mährisches Gewerbe Museum in Brünn" on title-page and all wrappers. Text in German. Portfolio, wraps, and prospect pages in fair, chromolithographs and text pages in very good condition. Complete with plates in brilliant colors. * Architects: Heinrich Adam, Johann Deininger, Rudolf Feldscharek, Fellner & Helmer, Heinrich Freiherr v. Ferstel, Hermann Giesel, Theophil Ritter v. Hansen, Carl Freiherr v. Hasenauer, Hermann Herdtle, Friedrich König, Max Kropf, Franz Lefler, Franz Ritter v. Neumann jun., Friedrich Schachner, Friedrich Schmidt, Franz Segen-Schmidt, Camillo Sitte, Joseph Storck, Ludwig v. Vintschger, Reinhold Völkel, Richard Völkel,, Alexander v. Wielemanns.

Tokyomania by Araki, Nobuyoshi (Photography); Germano Celant (Preface)

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Title: Tokyomania
Author: Araki, Nobuyoshi (Photography); Germano Celant (Preface)
Seller: Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller (United States)
ISBN: 9782914171045
Condition: Near fine condition
Description: Paris: Galerie Kamel Mennour, 2000. First edition. Softcover. Near fine condition. Quarto. 96pp. Original photo-illustrated stiff wraps with red lettering on cover and spine. Photo-illustrated front endpapers. Frontispiece photograph. "Araki's formative years were spent in 60s Japan; a world in which all that was sexual was obscured and silenced. In order to break free from this realm of sexual complexes and denial, he began taking photographs that burst virulently out of the confines of it somber, nocturnal world. Using only his camera, he captured this world's darkness and repression, which were to become both his virtue and his vice." (Germano Celant). Profusely illustrated with color and b/w white photographs aiming to break through the oppressive societal limitations. Text in French, Japanese and English. Minor wear.

The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale by Goldsmith, Oliver

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Title: The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale
Author: Goldsmith, Oliver
Seller: B & B Rare Books, Ltd., ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Corke: Printed for Eugene Swiney, 1766 Pirated Corke edition. Bound in contemporary full brown calf, with five raised bands to the spine, contrasting red calf label to the spine, lettered and decorated in gilt, board edges tooled in blind. Very good, with some wear to the extremities, light rubbing to the boards and spine, minor spotting to the fore edge, former owner's bookplate to the front pastedown, some minor creasing to the otherwise bright pages. Overall, a tight and unsophisticated copy. Housed in a custom quarter morocco red slipcase with a matching chemise. This pirated edition of The Vicar of Wakefield was published in the same year as the first authorized edition that consisted of two volumes printed by R. Collins in London. The pirated Corke edition was also issued in two volumes; in the case of this copy, a previous owner had his binder combine the two parts into a single volume. The Vicar of Wakefield is a Victorian novel that is narrated by Dr. Charles Primrose, the fictional Vicar of Wakefield. Specifically, it follows the Primrose family, humble and moral in spite of its material wealth and indicative of Goldsmith's idealization of pastoral life, after they fall into poverty and subsequent dilemmas as a result, not of their own misdeeds, but of the corrupt and depraved individuals around them. One of the most highly regarded and widely read books of the eighteenth century, The Vicar of Wakefield is mentioned in several notable subsequent publications, including Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818), Charlotte Brontë's The Professor (1857), Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities (1859), and George Eliot's Middlemarch (1871-1872), among others.. Hard Cover. Very Good.

Codigo Civil del Distrito Federal y Territorio de la Baja-California

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Title: Codigo Civil del Distrito Federal y Territorio de la Baja-California
Seller: Weller Book Works ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: J.M. Aguilar Ortiz, 1875. Good. Codigo Civil del Distrito Federal y Territorio de la Baja-California. Santo Domingo: J.M. Aguilar Ortiz, 1875. 368, 72pp. 8vo. Book condition: Good with heavily rubbed and bumped edges, a 3/4 inch piece missing from spine head, previous owner's writing on rear pastedown, and very light damp staining to fore edge of textblock. There are loose gatherings between pages 104 and 135. Otherwise the text is tight and clean. Rare.

Tommy Dorsey, Signed Napkin Adam Springs Hotel Undated

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Title: Tommy Dorsey, Signed Napkin Adam Springs Hotel Undated
Seller: Alcuin Books, ABAA-ILAB (United States)
Description: Boldly signed by Tommy Dorsey on a folded cloth napkin of the Adam Springs Hotel in California where the big bands played, booze flowed even under prohibition and gambling was wide open until 1949. Besides Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Xavier Cugat, Freedy Martin, and others played at their large outdoor dance pavilion. The bar and restaurant were opened around the clock which made it a favorite rendezvous location for celebrities.

BRIDES OF THE DEVIL by York, Jacqueline

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Title: BRIDES OF THE DEVIL
Author: York, Jacqueline
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: BRIDES OF THE DEVIL, Comyns, 1946, first edition, some soiling to the covers, else a near vg copy.

Your 1957 Packard Clipper (Owner's Manual, with Packard Clipper Supplement) by Studebaker-Packard Corporation

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Title: Your 1957 Packard Clipper (Owner's Manual, with Packard Clipper Supplement)
Author: Studebaker-Packard Corporation
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Detroit: Studebaker-Packard Corporation, 1957. First Ediiton. Original Wraps. Fine. Octavo, 32 pages, Owner's Manual, with the 4 page supplement "Packard Clipper Accessories." A lovely copy.

Peter Joseph Lenné: Katalog der Zeichnungen by LENNÉ, Peter Joseph

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Title: Peter Joseph Lenné: Katalog der Zeichnungen
Author: LENNÉ, Peter Joseph
Seller: Harper's Books (United States)
Condition: Small smudge to bottom corner of text block, else fine in a near fine jacket.
Description: Tübingen: Ernst Wasmuth Verlag, 1993. Small smudge to bottom corner of text block, else fine in a near fine jacket.. First Edition. Thick quarto. A catalogue of Lenné's drawings, selected and annotated by Harri Günther and Sibylle Harksen.

Uniforms and Insignia of the National Socialist German Workers Party: NSGWP. by Anonymous.

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Title: Uniforms and Insignia of the National Socialist German Workers Party: NSGWP.
Author: Anonymous.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: N.l.: n.p., n.d. Octavo, stiff printed wrappers, stapled, text in German and English, 71 black & white plates. Very Good.

Jacksonville Greets the 20th Century: The Pictorial Legacy of Leah Mary Cox. by Ann Hyman and photo editor Ron Masucci.

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Title: Jacksonville Greets the 20th Century: The Pictorial Legacy of Leah Mary Cox.
Author: Ann Hyman and photo editor Ron Masucci.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Gainesville, Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 1021 Oblong octavo, hardcover (cloth & boards), gilt letters, xix, 125 pp. Fine in a Fine dust jacket. From dust jacket: Through striking architectural photographs and lively, readable narrative, this pictorial account of early-twentieth-century Jacksonville tells the triumphant story of photographer Leah Mary Cox while revealing Jacksonville’s architectural history. Nearly 50 years after Cox’s death, a treasure trove of more than 4,000 glass negatives was discovered, stashed in the basement of her home. Cox’s images capture Jacksonville at the turn of the century. Ranging from the Spanish-American War and the Great Fire of 1901 to the city’s rich architectural diversity and everyday street scenes, her photographs serve as one of the most significant visual records available of Jacksonville in the early 1900s. Ann Hyman takes 61 captivating photographs from this vast collection and reconstructs an image of life in Jacksonville, weaving it together with pieces of Cox’s life to create an engaging narrative. Background insights, such as Cox’s determination to keep her family together after the death of her father and the illness of her mother, provide the reader with a sense of context for her photography. This illustrated account of Jacksonville’s architectural achievements is an incredible find for photographers, Jacksonville historians, and those interested in early photography and women’s studies.

ARCHITECTURAL AND ORNAMENT DRAWINGS... by UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART

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Title: ARCHITECTURAL AND ORNAMENT DRAWINGS...
Author: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART
Seller: The Bookpress, Ltd. (United States)
Description: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART. ARCHITECTURAL AND ORNAMENT DRAWINGS... Ann Arbor: The Author, 1965. 4to. Cloth. Unpaginated. First edition. A catalogue of 16th through 19th-century drawings relating to architecture an the decorative arts at the art museum. Covers lightly rubbed, else very good.

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