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Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua Sac. Ces. Mae. Stampati in Praga da Aegidio Sadeler scultore di essa mae 1606

Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua Sac. Ces. Mae. Stampati in Praga da Aegidio Sadeler scultore di essa mae 1606 by ROME. Sadeler, Aegidius (1570-1629)

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Vestigi delle antichita di Roma Tivoli Pozzvolo et altri luochi. Con privilegio di sua Sac. Ces. Mae. Stampati in Praga da Aegidio Sadeler scultore di essa mae 1606
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ROME. Sadeler, Aegidius (1570-1629)
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Liber Antiquus (United States)
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Fine
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Prague: Aegidius Sadeler, 1606. FIRST EDITION. Hardcover. Fine. A very fine, broad-margined copy with very rich and clear impressions of the plates. Occ. marginal soiling, a few pin-prick wormholes in the margins of a few leaves. Bound in contemporary morocco, richly tooled in gold. With an engraved allegorical title with the main title incised within a wolf's hide hung on a monument; an engraved dedication to Matthaeus Wacker von Wackenfels (numbered'1'), with the text incised on a stone tablet between flanking obelisks and with two putti supporting the dedicatee's arms; and 49 full-paged engraved plates (ca. 170 x 270 mm), all numbered and signed 'Marco Sadeler excudit', with descriptive captions in Italian. This is the first edition. Thirty-six of these images were copied by Aegidius Sadeler from Etienne Du Pérac's " Vestigi dell'Antichità di Roma" (Rome 1575). For the other images, Sadeler drew on drawings by Jan Breughel the elder and Pieter Stevens. Marco Sadeler, whose name appears on the plates, was an engraver and print seller in Prague in the early 1600's and probably the nephew of Aegidius. In the middle of the 17th century, a copy of the 1606 edition found its way to Rome where it was copied for Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi by Girolamo Ferri and published in 1660. In this series, the artists have depicted the ancient monuments of Rome, Tivoli and Pozzuoli as they appeared in the late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century: crowned with vegetation, half-buried by the rising ground level and encroached upon by a host of post-Roman structures. The scenes are alive with Rome's inhabitants: herdsmen, mule-drivers, cattle, sheep, and every manner of citizen. The images, in which the ruins are depicted in their un-restored state and within the context of their early modern environments, serve as a record of the monuments as they appeared in this period and evoke the atmosphere of daily life in early modern Rome. Sadeler and The Bay of Naples: In addition to the views of Rome, the Sadeler series also includes a number of plates of ruins and views of the Bay of Naples and its environs: the Gulf of Baiae, Cuma, Lago Averno, the Campi Flegrei, Capo Miseno, and the Villa Agrippina at Oplontis, and other places within the confines of Pozzuoli.
Part of Lucian made English from the Originall. In the Yeare 1638. ; [Trans. Jasper Mayne and Francis Hicks]

Part of Lucian made English from the Originall. In the Yeare 1638. ; [Trans. Jasper Mayne and Francis Hicks] by Lucian of Samosata

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Part of Lucian made English from the Originall. In the Yeare 1638. ; [Trans. Jasper Mayne and Francis Hicks]
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Lucian of Samosata
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Biblioctopus (United States)
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Oxford: Printed by H Hall for R Davis, 1663. First Edition. The Mayne translation and the 2nd edition of Hickes translation. This edition of Lucian is thus the first substantially complete edition in English. Prior to the publication of the 9 Dialogues translated by Hickes (d. 1631) at Oxford in 1634, only two of Lucian's Dialogues had been translated into English and published in book form. Mayne's translation of fifty had been made in 1638 for the private entertainment of Sir William Cavendish, Duke of Newcastle, but left in manuscript. When Mayne finally allowed them to be published it appears that an agreement was made to include the Hickes translations as well. The joint volume first appeared 1663. This is the 1st issue with both title pages dated 1663 (the 2nd issue has the date changed to 1664 on the first title page and adds an engraved portrait of Lucian by William Faithorne the Elder). Includes "Lucian His True Historie" and "Icaromenippus, or the Loftie Traveller" (also known as "Above the Clouds"), as well as other fantastic dialogues and pieces. Lucian's "Verae Historiae," dating from the 2nd century A.D., is the ". earliest surviving interplanetary romance; a satire in which a sailing ship's crew is carried by a whirlwind to an inhabited moon." - Locke, Voyages in Space 002. Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997). pp. 597-98. Collation: Small folio, two parts in one volume; pp. [1-16] 1-398 [399-400] [1-16] 1- 200, seventeenth century full calf, front and rear panels ruled and tooled in gold, spine panel ruled in gold, spine rebacked with the original laid down, scrap paper 16th century leaves used as paste-downs, very good. Custom quarter morocco box. Lucian is a major proto-figure for fantasy, not only for his "True Historie," but also for "Icaromenippus" and other fantastic dialogues and pieces collected here. Lucian "was one of the first great fantasists, satirizing the old producing material that was knowingly fiction, gods but using supernatural plot devices. His most important works were his Dialogues, a form he derived from Plato (427-347 BC); they have been imitated by scores of writers from the 15th century on. His Menippus sequence, 'Menippus' (also known as 'Necyomantia) and 'Icaromenippus,' shows an old philosopher endeavouring to discover the meaning and realities of life, first through discussions with the dead in the underworld and then with the gods on Olympus. In 'Charon' the ferryman over the Styx leaves the underworld to explore life. It is perhaps Lucian's most expressive form of reverse perception, again highlighting the pettiness of humanity. Others of Lucian's Dialogues are more philosophical than fantastic, although in 'Gallo' ['The Cock;' also known as 'The Dream'] a cobbler is rendered invisible by a cock's magic tail feathers so he can spy on the rich and discover they are less happy than he. Lucian's most famous work is 'Verae Historiae' ['True History'], which takes its intrepid voyagers to the Moon and past the Sun as well as to many distant islands; it is a parody of the travellers' tales that were already multitudinous in Lucian's day. Lucian's works were translated into Latin by Erasmus (1466-1536) and later writers, and were a significant influence on Francois Rabelais, Sir Thomas More (1478-1535), Johannes Kepler (1571-1630), Cyrano de Bergerac (1619-1655), Jonathan Swift and others.
Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus. Recuës et corrigées sur la coppie imprimée à Lyon par Benoist Rigaud 1568

Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus. Recuës et corrigées sur la coppie imprimée à Lyon par Benoist Rigaud 1568 by Nostradamus [Michel], Vincent Seve, ed

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Les Propheties de M. Michel Nostradamus. Recuës et corrigées sur la coppie imprimée à Lyon par Benoist Rigaud 1568
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Nostradamus [Michel], Vincent Seve, ed
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Thorn Books (United States)
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Troyes) Languedoc: (Pierre de Rau) Chasteau de Chantilly, 1605. First edition. Hardcover. Very good. 8vo. (63), 56, (8) leaves. Modern half vellum , marbled paper boards, ink spine title. Woodcut portrait of Nostradamus on the title page, which is lightly rubbed and with a tiny repair on the top margin not affecting the text. Contemporary faded signature on the title page. A few pages with light dampstaining, A2 verso with a top corner touching one letter of text. Overall a very good copy. The first edition to contain the 141 Presages from the 1555-67 Almanachs and the 58 Sixains. Rare. The title page bears no statement of printing or place, only the date, but references suggest it was printed at Troyes by Pierre de Ruau. The first of the final eight leaves state: "Par Vincent Seue de Baucaire en Languedoc, des le 19 Mars 1605 au Chasteau de Chantilly, maison de Monseigneur le Connestable de Montmorency." Chomarat 166; Benazra p. 156; Caiullet 8067. OCLC 1066386203. .
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Virginians, a Tale of the Last Century by THACKERAY William Makepeace

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Virginians, a Tale of the Last Century
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THACKERAY William Makepeace
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Bauman Rare Books (United States)
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1857. First Edition. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century. London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857-59. Octavo, 24 original parts in original yellow printed wrappers, uncut and occasionally unopened. Housed in two custom clamshell boxes. $1500.First edition in original parts, first issues, with all plates and advertisements, of Thackeray's tale of brethren divided during the American Revolution, the last book the author himself illustrated.Like his contemporary (and rival) Charles Dickens, Thackeray visited the United States (first in 1852-53, again in 1855-56); unlike his fellow novelist, however, Thackeray ""had on the whole a happy time… He was willing, as Dickens had not been, to see the greatness of the country and recognize that the promise of the future atoned for the shortcomings of the present… Impressions of the second tour were worked into The Virginians,"" Thackeray's continuation of the family saga he began in The History of Henry Esmond (1852) (Baugh et al., 1358-59). Here, the author traces the fortunes of Henry Esmond's grandsons as the Revolutionary War divides them. With 48 engraved plates and several small in-text woodcuts by Thackeray—the last book he himself illustrated. First issue, with the first word on page 207, line 15 from the bottom (in No. 7) misprinted ""actresses"" (corrected in later editions to ""ancestresses""); in part 12, chapters XLVII-XLVIII misnumbered XLVIII-XLIX. All parts conform in all particulars to the bibliographer's descriptions, including all slips and advertisements, except that a few of them are on different paper than called for. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the bibliographer's copy, which has a publisher's catalogue at rear of Part 24, may be anomalous. Afterward published in book form (two clothbound volumes, dated 1858 and 1859). Van Duzer 232. Two plates, in No. 8, with darkening to edges, otherwise all plates and text clean and fine. Wrappers in extraordinary condition. A beautiful copy.
1867 – Letter from an early settler in Cimarron, New Mexico, informing a friend back home in Ohio, that a gold rush had begun in earnest and that he might mine a claim and marry one “of these Black Eyed Mexican galls”

1867 – Letter from an early settler in Cimarron, New Mexico, informing a friend back home in Ohio, that a gold rush had begun in earnest and that he might mine a claim and marry one “of these Black Eyed Mexican galls” by A. J. Thomas

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1867 – Letter from an early settler in Cimarron, New Mexico, informing a friend back home in Ohio, that a gold rush had begun in earnest and that he might mine a claim and marry one “of these Black Eyed Mexican galls”
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A. J. Thomas
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Kurt A. Sanftleben (United States)
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Very good
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Cimarron, New Mexico Territory, 1867. Envelope or Cover. Very good. This three-page stampless letter was sent by A. J. Thomas, a hay farmer from Cimarron, New Mexico Territory, to J. B. Culver in Delaware, Ohio. It is franked with a 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65) tied to the envelope with a “Cimarron, New Mexico, Jul 18, 1867” postmark. It bears a straightline “ADVERTISED” hand stamp a circular handstamp that reads only “Sep 1” that were applied after the letter had sat unclaimed in the Delaware post office. In nice shape. In the letter, Thomas discusses the gold boom that began in 1866. “There has been a considerable excitement about gold mines in this country but I cant say what they are going to amount to. I was up there some time ago and took a claim but I havent got much faith in mining and if I had, I have got no time to spend on them now. I commenced mowing one week ago but make slow progress as it has rained nearly all the time. . .. I was talking some of coming to the States this fall but I don’t know whether I will get there or not. I may take a notion to get married to Some of these Black Eyed Mexican galls one of these days. . ..” . Cimarron had long been a ranching community at edge of Sangre de Cristo Mountains along the Santa Fe Trail. In 1841, a fur trapper, Charles Beaubien, married a young Native American girl, opened a store in Taos, and became a Mexican citizen. Together with Guadalupe Miranda, a local businessman-politician, he petitioned Governor Manuel Armijo and received a 1.7 million acre land grant. A year later, Charles Lucien B. Maxwell, another fur trapper, married one of Beaubien’s daughters, Luz. After inheriting their share of the ranch, the Maxwells bought out Miranda’s interest as well as those of Luz’s sisters. The area American pioneers but remained quiet, except for Apache and Commanche raids. Settlement gradually increased until copper was discovered on Baldy Creek in 1866, after which Maxwell formed a company to extract the ore. Almost immediately, gold was found among the copper, and soon prospectors, saloons, brothels descended upon Cimarron, which became a wild and roaring boomtown. Several years later, Maxwell decided to sell his land grant only to find it enmeshed in legal entanglements which led directly to the vicious Colfax County Range War that lasted until 1877. During most of the 19th century, mail was not routinely delivered by the post office. Rather, it was held for recipients to pick-up. If it was not, the postmaster would place an advertisement in the local newspaper and hold if for a little longer. If the recipient then picked up the mail, an additional fee, usually one cent, was charged. If it remained uncollected it was forwarded to the Dead Letter Office. (For more information, see “Maxwell Land Grant – Largest Land Grant in US History” and “Cimarron, New Mexico – Wild & Bawdy Boomtown” both at the Legends of America website and Epting’s “The Letter Opener,” a 7 May 2023 blog entry at stamps.org,) A scarce territorial letter documenting the beginning of the Cimarron Gold Rush. Nothing similar is for sale in the trade. The Rare Book Hub and ABPC show no auction records for similar items, however two companion covers from but without contents have been sold in the philatelic community. OCLC shows only one similar letter is held by an institution, the Huntington. .
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Thelyphthora; or, A Treatise on Female Ruin, by MADAN, Martin

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Thelyphthora; or, A Treatise on Female Ruin,
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MADAN, Martin
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Savoy Books (United States)
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Book. in its causes, effects, consequences, prevention and remedy; considered on the basis of the divine law: Under the following heads, viz. marriage, whoredom and fornication, adultery, polygamy, divorce; with many other incidental matters. London: J. Dodsley, 1780-81. 3 vols, 8vo, 19th c. 3/4 morocco, marbled boards, raised bands, gilt compartments, Pp. xxiv, 412;[iv], 382, (18); [iv], 402, (10). A.e.g. Bindings moderately rubbed, older ownership stamp on interior leaf; a very good, sound set. First edition. A famous treatise on the social benefits of polygamy, which causd a great outcry, and petirions were raised to suppress it. Brigham Young owned a copy of the set.. The third volume was published separately. BLC; NSTC..
SOME DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY AND ORDINARY MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, BRIEFLY CONSIDERED, IN TWO DISCOURSES DELIVERED AT THE PUBLICK LECTURES, IN HARVARD-COLLEGE, NOVEMBER 12TH AND 19TH. 1754. AFTER THE REVEREND MR. WHITEFIELD'S PREACHING AT CAMBRIDGE

SOME DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY AND ORDINARY MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, BRIEFLY CONSIDERED, IN TWO DISCOURSES DELIVERED AT THE PUBLICK LECTURES, IN HARVARD-COLLEGE, NOVEMBER 12TH AND 19TH. 1754. AFTER THE REVEREND MR. WHITEFIELD'S PREACHING AT CAMBRIDGE by Wigglesworth, Edward

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SOME DISTINGUISHING CHARACTERS OF THE EXTRAORDINARY AND ORDINARY MINISTERS OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST, BRIEFLY CONSIDERED, IN TWO DISCOURSES DELIVERED AT THE PUBLICK LECTURES, IN HARVARD-COLLEGE, NOVEMBER 12TH AND 19TH. 1754. AFTER THE REVEREND MR. WHITEFIELD'S PREACHING AT CAMBRIDGE
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Wigglesworth, Edward
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David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
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Boston: Thomas Fleet., 1754. 34pp, with the half title and errata statement, but without the final blank. Stitched, untrimmed with generous margins. Half title dusted, else Very Good. These discourses, plus his earlier attack on Whitefield, established Wigglesworth as "a leader among the anti-evangelical clergy" [DAB]. The first Hollis Professor at Harvard, Wigglesworth argues here that contemporary evangelists-- "modern itinerants" like Whitefield-- have little in common "with the Evangelists in the Apostolic Age." FIRST EDITION. Evans 7338. ESTC W29448.
[AMERICAN SONGBIRDS]. Two framed original chromolithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean

[AMERICAN SONGBIRDS]. Two framed original chromolithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean by Baird, Spencer Fullerton

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[AMERICAN SONGBIRDS]. Two framed original chromolithographs from the Zoology / Ornithology section of the "Reports of explorations and surveys to ascertain the most practicable and economic route for a railroad from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean
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Baird, Spencer Fullerton
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Michael Laird Rare Books LLC (United States)
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Very good
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Washington DC: War Department, 1859. First Edition. Very good. Together two matted and framed chromolithographs (visible portion: ca. 245 x 190 mm; frame size: ca. 303 x 274). The are original prints, NOT reproductions! AN EXCELLENT PAIR OF ORNITHOLOGICAL CHROMOLITHOGRAPHS from the famed "Pacific Railroad Surveys" of 1853-1855. "The ornithological studies produced from the Railroad Surveys were of such outstanding quality that they were republished in 1860 under the aegis of the Smithsonian Institution. Entitled 'The Birds of North America,' the illustrations and text by Spencer Baird are still considered to be among the best of the early ornithological works on American birds." (Brown University, The Robert S. and Margaret A. Ames Collection of Illustrated Books, online). The plates here are: Vol. X, Plate XXXV: Mountain (a.k.a. Arctic) Bluebird; Vol. X, Plate XXXI: Hepatic Tanager (observed in the San Francisco Mountains of New Mexico).
The History of Almira. Designed to Show the Advantages of a Good Education. By A Youth

The History of Almira. Designed to Show the Advantages of a Good Education. By A Youth

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The History of Almira. Designed to Show the Advantages of a Good Education. By A Youth
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Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
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New Hampshire, 1815. Good. 3 3/8” x 2”. Boards. Pp. v, [6-]68. Good: front board nearly detached; only remnants of paper over boards; old tape to rear; penultimate leaf printed askew, causing the loss of one line of text; lightly spotted throughout with a few tiny dog ears. Bookplate and penciled signature of former owner to front pastedown. This is a delightful miniature children's storybook about the education of a young woman named Almira, published and printed by New Hampshire notables and previously owned by a woman in the state. The anonymous author's preface acknowledged that “It is not my wish to divert the attention of my young readers from their useful books, by putting another into their hands, but, to encourage them in reading more attentively . . .” And if the story was to seem “too trifling to my older readers, let them remember, that they too were once young and were pleased with trifles.” The text concerned young Almira's “parentage,” “disposition and manners” and how her obedience, “love for study” and “progress in learning” led to her enjoying a “useful” life: “her manners agreeable,” “her mind serene” and ultimately, “her death lamented.” She was said to “treat all classes of people with decency and kindness” and that “less disturbances filled her mind, than are usual with the illiterate and idle.” All this to suggest that “your happiness in this life depends chiefly on your behavior . . . and a strict attention to your book, now while you are young, will certainly make you wise.” The book's printer, George Hough, put out Concord, New Hampshire's first newspaper in 1790 and the state's first religious newspaper in 1819. Publisher Jason Lothrop was a New Hampshire school teacher who wrote and published several books of poems and hymns. He later became a pastor and founded the first Baptist church and first printing press in Kenosha, Wisconsin. The book holds the bookplate of a woman, Lucy P. Knowlton, who lived from 1808 to 1891 in Hopkinton, New Hampshire, as well as her later signature as Lucy P. Bailey. A fairly uncommon and charming work for children. OCLC shows 14 holdings of the physical book over two entries.
BATHROOMS OF CHARACTER Bound Together With PORCELAIN FIXTURES FOR KITCHEN AND LAUNDRY

BATHROOMS OF CHARACTER Bound Together With PORCELAIN FIXTURES FOR KITCHEN AND LAUNDRY by (Trenton Potteries Company) (Arts and Crafts Trade Catalogue)

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BATHROOMS OF CHARACTER Bound Together With PORCELAIN FIXTURES FOR KITCHEN AND LAUNDRY
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(Trenton Potteries Company) (Arts and Crafts Trade Catalogue)
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Green Gate Farm Antiquarian Books (United States)
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A fine copy of a rare trade catalogue issued by the Trenton Potteries Company. Decorative wrappers bound in dos-a-dos style tied with two silk twists, one olive green, one ochre. "Bathrooms of Character" has 40 pages, beautifully illustrated with plans for creating a stylish bathroom. The cover design features a background in olive green squares outlined in white, suggesting tiles with title letters in a raised white Arts and Crafts font. Embellishments of "tiles" with soft ochre stylized irises and foliage complete the handsome composition. The pamplet's counterpart, "Porcelain Fixtures For Kitchen and Laundry" has 31 pages, also nicely illustrated. Its cover design is identical to that of the bathroom pamphlet, reversing the use of colors, with ochre squares outlined in white and the iris designs executed in olive green. The text presents a wide array of superior qualities of the products, including "Your Maid Will Find Cleaning Easy". It attests to shared contemporary frustrations, "Every woman has had experience with the "servant problem". Dimensions and prices are included. This is the sixth edition of a booklet that was updated, beginning circa 1914. Advertisements for the brochures were carried by some of the most prestigious periodicals of the day, including, House Beautiful, Country Life and The Fra. Very scarce indeed, particularly in fine condition and retaining the original postal envelope, addressed in this case to "Gladys Drinkwater, 1124 St. Vincent Street, Utica, N.Y." The envelope has a pencil date of 10/21/21 as well as the original three cent purple George Washington stamp (canceled).
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Catalogue 1: Twentieth-Century Art by VAN DE VELDE, Ronny & CEULEERS, Jan, booksellers

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Catalogue 1: Twentieth-Century Art
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VAN DE VELDE, Ronny & CEULEERS, Jan, booksellers
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Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
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Numerous black & white illus., some full-page. [106] pp. Small folio (298 x 212 mm.), orig. printed pictorial wrappers. Antwerp: 1992. The scarce first catalogue issued by the partnership of gallerist Van de Velde and bookseller Ceuleers. Their collaboration began in 1990. It offers an impressive array of rare artists’ books, multiples, exhibition catalogues, and important reference works. The first portion of the catalogue consists of materials related to Dada and Surrealism; the second is devoted to “Art after 1945.” A near fine copy. ❧ Not in A. Desjardin, The Book on Books on Artists Books (2nd ed.: 2013).
Wobble To Death [Signed]

Wobble To Death [Signed] by LOVESEY, Peter

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Wobble To Death [Signed]
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LOVESEY, Peter
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London: Macmilland & Co. Ltd, 1970. First Edition. First Impression. Octavo (20.5cm); brick red paper-covered boards, with titles stamped in black on spine; dustjacket; [6],7-190,[2]pp. Signed by the author on the upper margin of the title page. Some of the usual tanning to the text edges, else Near Fine. Dustjacket is unclipped (priced £1.05 (21s) net), with light wear to extremities, and the publisher's sticker on front panel; Near Fine. Author's first book and winner of the Macmillan/Panther Competition for Best First Crime Novel. Featuring Victorian era detective Sergeant Daniel Cribb and his assistant Constable Thackeray. BARZUN 1413; KEATING, P.198; HUBIN, p.262. 81913.
Pinsky (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)

Pinsky (Original screenplay for an unproduced film) by Peter Benchley (screenwriter); Paul D. Zimmerman (screenwriter);

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Pinsky (Original screenplay for an unproduced film)
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Peter Benchley (screenwriter); Paul D. Zimmerman (screenwriter);
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N.p.: N.p., 1985. First Draft script for an unproduced film. With a few small manuscript ink proofreading annotations throughout. A Cold War comedy about a kind but unstable translator for the USSR who must balance the amorous intentions of the US President's aide with the warring factions of their separate countries over the course of a prolonged summit meeting. Screenwriter Paul D. Zimmerman was best known for the successful crime film "The King of Comedy" (Scorsese, 1982). Set in Russia, Vienna and Washington, DC. White titled self-wrappers. Title page present, dated December, 1985, noted as First-Draft, with credits for screenwriters Paul D. Zimmerman and Peter Benchley. 126 leaves, with last page of text numbered 125. Xerographic duplication, rectos only. Pages Very Good plus, unbound.
[Crusades] Conquete de Constantinople; Avec la Continuation de Henri de Valenciennes: Texte Original, Accompagne d'une Traduction

[Crusades] Conquete de Constantinople; Avec la Continuation de Henri de Valenciennes: Texte Original, Accompagne d'une Traduction by de Ville-Hardouin, Geoffroi; de Wailly, M. Natalis (Translator)

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[Crusades] Conquete de Constantinople; Avec la Continuation de Henri de Valenciennes: Texte Original, Accompagne d'une Traduction
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de Ville-Hardouin, Geoffroi; de Wailly, M. Natalis (Translator)
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Swan's Fine Books (United States)
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Paris: Librairie de Firmin-Didot Freres, Fils et Cie, 1874. Second Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Quarto size, 640 pp., text in French. The best known work by knight and historian Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin (c. 1150-c.1213/18), written between 1207 and 1213. This work is one of the oldest known examples of historical French prose, and though not written from an entirely objective point of view, is an essential historical text, by a contemporaneous participant of the Fourth Crusade. The text is presented in both the original 13th-century French accompanied by a more modern French translation. ___DESCRIPTION: Contemporaneous half red morocco with marbled paper covered boards, backstrip with five raised bands stamped in gilt to each panel, top edge gilt, decorative endpapers of black with repearting gold lion designs and two different roundels (one of men on a ship, from a miniature from "l'Histoire des Croisades" de Guillaume de Tyr, from a 13th-century manuscript; the second of a man on horseback (likely the seal of Geoffroi de Ville-Hardouin) ), frontis of "La Basilique de Saint-Marc" in colour with captioned tissue guard, title page in red and black, decorative headpieces and tailpieces, floriated initials, some illustrations in text, three-panel fold-out map at the rear; quarto size (11" by 7.75"), pagination: [i-vi] [i] ii-xxiv, [1-3] 4-616, second edition. ___CONDITION: A very good copy, internally bright with very minimal foxing, no prior owner markings, the frontis plate and map are clean and bright, gilt is still bright, text block is straight and square, covers are clean; with some rubbing and chipping at joints and edges with a small chip out of the head of the spine, front hinge cracked but the board solid, rear hinge just starting corners slightly bumped with some rubbing; overall a very good copy of an important historical perspective on the Crusades. ___POSTAGE: International customers, please note that additional postage may apply as the standard shipping charge 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.
Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions by Amis, Martin

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Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions
Author
Amis, Martin
Seller
Bookbid Rare Books (United States)
ISBN
9780224038249
Condition
Fine
Description
J. Cape, 1993. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. A fine first UK edition in a fine dust jacket, signed by the author on the title page. First published 1993 and complete row of numbers from 10 to 1 on the copyright page.
It Walks by Night

It Walks by Night by Carr, John Dickson

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Title
It Walks by Night
Author
Carr, John Dickson
Seller
Carpetbagger Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition
Good
Description
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Good, lacking the jacket but with a supplied facsimile. Blue cloth, rubbed and lightly frayed at the edges, bumped at the corners. Bound with a forward lean and reading wear, former owner's name and information on the front endpaper, deep creases at the rear endpaper and flyleaves. Carr's first detective novel and the first Henri Bencolin mystery.
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Idol of the West. The Fabulous Career of Rollin Mallory Daggett. by Weisenburger, Francis Phelps.

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Idol of the West. The Fabulous Career of Rollin Mallory Daggett.
Author
Weisenburger, Francis Phelps.
Seller
Argonaut Book Shop (United States)
Condition
Very fine
Description
Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 1965 Book. Very fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. Octavo. 9¼ x 6 inches. Pp. ix [1] 220. 11 illustrations. Chapter notes, bibliography, index. Light tan cloth, gilt. A very fine and bright copy with pictorial dust jacket. Half-inch closed tear to top front edge of jacket. First edition. Biography of an amazing career. Rollin Mallory Dagget came to California in 1850, was founder of the Golden Era, off to the Comstock Lode of Nevada, on the staff of the Territorial Enterprise, friend of Mark Twain, lone Congressman from Nevada from 1879 to 1881, and finally, American minister to the Hawaiian Islands for three years prior to annexation. .
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British Museum Catalogue of Additions To the Manuscripts: The Gladstone Papers

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British Museum Catalogue of Additions To the Manuscripts: The Gladstone Papers
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Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition
Very Good
Description
London: Trustees of British Museum, 1953. Very Good. First edition. Very good. (Pages: 400) Faded area on front cover, light bumps to spine ends and corners.
The Trial of Sylvanus Collett: Excerpts from testimony before the First District Court of Utah Territory during the October 1878 trial of former Salmon River missionary Sylvanus Collett for the murder in November 1857 of John Aiken, a member of the Aiken Party, as reported by The Daily Tribune, Salt Lake City

The Trial of Sylvanus Collett: Excerpts from testimony before the First District Court of Utah Territory during the October 1878 trial of former Salmon River missionary Sylvanus Collett for the murder in November 1857 of John Aiken, a member of the Aiken Party, as reported by The Daily Tribune, Salt Lake City by The Daily Tribune. Introduced and edited by David Bigler

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The Trial of Sylvanus Collett: Excerpts from testimony before the First District Court of Utah Territory during the October 1878 trial of former Salmon River missionary Sylvanus Collett for the murder in November 1857 of John Aiken, a member of the Aiken Party, as reported by The Daily Tribune, Salt Lake City
Author
The Daily Tribune. Introduced and edited by David Bigler
Seller
Tschanz Rare Books (United States)
Description
Spokane: Arthur H. Clark Company, 2003. 1/55. 18pp. Octavo [23 cm] Blue printed wrappers. Near fine. Signed by Bigler on the limitation page. Collector's Edition Keepsake for volume 6 of the Kingdom of the West series, 'Fort Limhi: The Mormon Adventure in Oregon Territory, 1855-1858.' In 1855 the Mormons established a mission at the foot of famous Lemhi Pass near Salmon River, where the Lewis and Clark Corps of Discovery first crossed the Continental Divide and Sacagawea was reunited with her brother. Fort Limhi was, at first, part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' outreach to the Indians throughout the West. But the mission soon assumed a critical role in Brigham Young's plans for the Saints as they faced the imminent confrontation with the U.S. government which came to be known as the Utah War The Kingdom in the West Series, subtitled 'The Mormons and the American Frontier,' is an award-winning series begun in 1997 that explored the story of the Latter-day Saints and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. The history of the Mormons in the American West is so sweeping it is easy to ignore episodes that, for one reason or another, found no place in the traditional annals of the region. This series explored the story of the Mormon people and their part in the greater history of the Western Frontier. Primary source documents, many of them previously unpublished, comprise this series' core.
Washing

Washing by TUCKER, Mary Wallace

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Title
Washing
Author
TUCKER, Mary Wallace
Seller
Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition
Very good
Description
Syracuse, New York: Syracuse Washing Machine Corporation, 1927. Stiff wraps. Very good. Wrapper title: Washing, Helps and Suggestions. 12mo; [1-2] 3-32; ivory colored stiff wrapper with title and author printed in black on front and green decoration; 2 staple binding; vignette illustrations in green ink; sunning and soiling to wrapper; very good. Not recorded. Interesting booklet on washing clothing, stain removal, as well as tips for cleaning other household furnishings.
Red Army Legacies: Essays on Forces, Capabilities & Personalities (Schiffer Militry History Book)
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Red Army Legacies: Essays on Forces, Capabilities & Personalities (Schiffer Militry History Book) by Richard N. Armstrong

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Title
Red Army Legacies: Essays on Forces, Capabilities & Personalities (Schiffer Militry History Book)
Author
Richard N. Armstrong
Seller
Ed's Editions Bookstore (United States)
ISBN
9780887408052
Condition
Very Good
Description
Schiffer Publishing, Ltd, 2004-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 9x6x1. Dust jacket and book are clean, has a very good binding, no marks or notations.
PRICE LIST STANDARD ENVELOPES

PRICE LIST STANDARD ENVELOPES

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PRICE LIST STANDARD ENVELOPES
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Worcester, MA: New England Envelope Company, n.d.. stiff paper wrappers tied with a blue cord. New England Envelope Company. small 8vo. stiff paper wrappers tied with a blue cord. (i), 20 pages. List No. 4. Note on front cover states "Keep this. The list which they sell to Printers by about 5% above our list - JEH." Several price list charts included. Minor wear to covers, slight discoloration to bottom edge.

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