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A BESTIARY by Wilbur, Richard & Calder, Alexander

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Title: A BESTIARY
Author: Wilbur, Richard & Calder, Alexander
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: A BESTIARY, Pantheon, 1955, first edition a fine copy in like slip-case. Illustrated by Calder. Of 875 copies, this is 1/50 on Rives-mould made paper out of series and SIGNED by the author/compiler and the artist. There also was an accompanying original SIGNED drawing with this issue which alas is lacking.

LES MAXIMES SUIVIES DES RÉFLEXIONS DIVERSES PUBLIÉES by (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF). LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇOIS, DUC DE

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Title: LES MAXIMES SUIVIES DES RÉFLEXIONS DIVERSES PUBLIÉES
Author: (BINDINGS - ZAEHNSDORF). LA ROCHEFOUCAULD, FRANÇOIS, DUC DE
Seller: Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (United States)
Description: Paris: [Imprimé par D. Jouaust] Librairie Des Bibliophiles, E. Flammarion, Successeur, 1892. 188 x 104 pp. (6 3/4 x 4 1/4"). XL, 290 pp., [1] leaf.Preface and notes by J.-F. Thénard. With the autobiographical essay "Self-Portrait by Himself" from the 1665 first edition, the introductions to the 1665 and the 1678 (fifth) editions, maxims removed from earlier editions, and the posthumously published essays "Reflections." EXQUISITE DARK BROWN MOROCCO, EXUBERANTLY GILT IN THE FANFARE STYLE, BY ZAEHNSDORF (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in, blind Exhibition stamp on rear doublure), covers with fillet border enclosing a panel with central oval strapwork medallion surrounded by rows of geometric ornaments, with sprays of leafy fronds connecting them and filling the space between, raised bands, spine compartments with central geometric ornament with leafy cornerpieces, gilt lettering, turn-ins with gilt fillets accented with leaf sprigs, crimson silk doublures and free endleaves, all edges gilt. Printer's device on title page. Front flyleaf with quote (in French) from the text ["It is more necessary to study men than to study books"] and "Christmas 1895" written in ink; recto of rear free endleaf with Taplow Court library label of William Grenfell, Baron Desborough. ◆Minor soiling to flyleaves, very faint browning to edges of leaves, otherwise very fine, the text clean and fresh, and in a virtually unworn binding bright with gilt. This comprehensive edition of the French moralist's famed collection of epigrams is offered here in a binding done in the fanfare style popular when this work was first printed. After a turbulent youth of court intrigue and aristocratic rebellions against King Louis XIII, François, Duc de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80) settled into a quiet life in the Parisian salons of Madame de Sablé, Madame de Sévigné, and Madame de La Fayette. It was among this intellectual, witty society that he honed the pithy epigrams that would have such an influence on French literature and culture. As the Oxford Companion notes, "The high degree of polish in the phrasing of the 'Maximes,' which excel in conciseness, precision, and appropriateness of expression, is to some extent due to discussions among his friends . . . . The work is a collection of some 500 gnomic sentences in which the author analyses the motives of human conduct with merciless penetration. While he recognizes in rare cases the existence of pure virtue and disinterested sentiments, he finds them tainted, almost universally, with some element of self-love or interested motive." Voltaire drew on La Rochefoucauld's views when writing "Candide," and the "Maximes" impacted the works of French writers from Stendhal to André Gide, as well as philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche and English novelist Thomas Hardy. The duke's worldview would have resonated with former owner William Grenfell, Baron Desborough (1855-1945), a sportsman and indefatigable public servant who was one of the founding members of The Souls (fl. 1886-1900), an elite group of friends whose social gatherings for intellectual discussions were perhaps Victorian London's closest approximation of a Parisian salon. Although other members included prominent and accomplished men and women, it was the parties given by Grenfell's wife and fellow Soul Ettie that attracted guests like Vita Sackville-West, H. G. Wells, Edith Wharton, Oscar Wilde, Edward VII (when Prince of Wales), and Winston Churchill. One can easily imagine one of the Souls presenting this volume to the Grenfells for Christmas in 1895. By one of the great London workshops, the binding here is a modified example of the fanfare style of decoration popular in France from the late 16th to mid-17th century. The main features of this style, in Glaister's words, "are interlacing ribbons" that form "compartments of various shapes, with emphasis given to a central compartment." Ornaments made with small hand tools "fill all the compartments except the central one and almost completely cover the sides." The fanfare style is perhaps most frequently associated with the work of Nicolas and Clovis Eve, court binders and booksellers to successive kings of France from about 1578 to 1634. It is generally believed that the term "fanfare" actually took its name from an early 17th century music book (the title of which begins with the word "fanfare") acquired by the bibliophile Charles Nodier in 1829. The book was bound for Nodier by the famous Parisian binder Joseph Thouvenin, using an appropriately retrospective design in imitation of the Eves' style, which from that point forward came to be known as "fanfare." The Zaehnsdorf bindery produced a number of bindings in this genre with their usual expertise. Hungarian-born Joseph Zaehnsdorf (1816-86) served his apprenticeship in Stuttgart, worked at a number of European locations as a journeyman, and then settled in London, where he was hired first by Westley and then by Mackenzie before opening his own workshop in 1842. His son and namesake took over the business at 33, when the senior Joseph died, and the firm flourished under the son's leadership, becoming a leading West End bindery. Over the years, Zaehnsdorf employed a considerable number of distinguished binders, including the Frenchman Louis Genth (who was chief finisher from 1859-84), and trained a number of others, including Roger de Coverly and Sarah Prideaux. A family-run business until 1947, the Zaehnsdorf bindery continued to produce consistently attractive, tasteful, and innovative designs executed with unfailing skill. It is generally understood that the Zaehnsdorf firm reserved the use of its oval stamp showing a binder at work for their finest bindings, including those entered in exhibitions..

The George Walter Vincent Smith Collection Art Museum [Cover title].; Art by Smith, George Walter Vincent

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Title: The George Walter Vincent Smith Collection Art Museum [Cover title].; Art
Author: Smith, George Walter Vincent
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Springfield, Massachusetts, 1918. Very good. 7¼” x 10”. Suede-covered flexible card scrapbook, title embossed in blind. 52 black paper leaves with 74 B&W photographs adhesive mounted rectos only. Photos measure 3½” x 5 5/8” and nearly all are captioned. Very good: loss of suede to entire spine and chipped at edges; a few leaves with chips, most somewhat fragile. Photographs very good or better: a few slightly wavy and the occasional small spot. This is an intriguing book of black and white photographs taken of and at the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum (GWVSAM), compiled and dedicated to a “valued friend” by Mr. Smith himself. George Walter Vincent Smith was born in 1832 and amassed a fortune exporting fabrics and manufacturing carriages in New York. He began collecting art in the late 1850s, particularly Japanese and Chinese armor, swords, carvings and furniture, and moved to Springfield, Massachusetts in 1871. He and his wife, Belle Townsley Smith, a Springfield native and connoisseur of Venetian lace, established the GWVSAM in 1895 to hold their vast, eclectic collections in a grand, Italian palazzo-style building. The museum is especially noted for its holdings of Japanese lacquer, treasures from ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome, rare examples of lace and early textiles, and one of the largest collections of Chinese cloisonné outside of Asia. The building's original Tiffany stained glass windows are the only such existing windows created specifically for a museum. This album was inscribed to Louis E. Dalbeck “With the compliments and best wishes of George Walter Vincent Smith, December 31, 1918.” Dalbeck (per his obituary) was a cellist, “well-known in Boston and New York musical circles,” and a recognized “authority on chamber music” who directed the Woodstock Inn (now the Vermont Symphony) Orchestra for 27 years. The album holds four photographs of the museum's exterior and one of a portrait of the Smiths by noted painter Thomas Waterman Wood. One page noted, “The following 18 views are taken from different positions in the ten galleries” and those are the only pages that lack detailed, tidy captions. The photos reveal dozens of impressive works of art, notably an 18th century “Japanese Shinto Shrine,” a 16th century “Italian Trousseau Chest” and several 16th to 19th century French, Italian, Chinese and Japanese cabinets and chairs. There are 18th century Japanese swords, a set of “European Armor, Gothic Style” from the 15th century and “Guns from Turkey, Morocco, Tunis, British India and Japan” from the 17th to 19th. Images also reveal alarmingly beautiful 19th century Russian and Japanese bronze sculptures, a “very rare specimen” of 17th century Chinese jade, Turkish and Persian rugs, carved ivory tankards from Germany from the 1800s and an array of 16th to 19th century Chinese and Japanese pottery, porcelain and jeweled enamel jars. There is also a “Marble Bas-relief of Mrs. Smith at the age of 25” by Madison Colby, an American sculptor who lived in Florence and a lovely example of Venetian “Rose Point Lace, 1688-1694.” A terrific photograph album of worldly treasures in a Massachusetts art museum, compiled and gifted by its founder.

Turmoil and Triumph: My Years As Secretary of State by George P. Shultz

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Title: Turmoil and Triumph: My Years As Secretary of State
Author: George P. Shultz
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ISBN: 9780684193250
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition/First Printing with the complete number line; A Near Fine book in a Near Fine dust jacket, with only light rubbing to the board and jacket edges, else as new and unread. SIGNED by the author to the 2nd free paper with provenance for the signing laid in (bookmark from the Kroch's & Brentano's First Editions Circle). Not remaindered, not price clipped, not ex-library; in a protective Mylar sleeve and will ship carefully wrapped in a sturdy box.

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Wireless by Charles Stross

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Title: Wireless
Author: Charles Stross
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ISBN: 9780441017195
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Stated first edition with the complete number line; near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Book shows minor shelf wear to both spine ends and bottom edges; dust jacket shows mild rubbing to spine ends and a crease on the back flap; otherwise a clean, bright, tight copy. In archival protection.

Alcyonaires provenant des campagnes scientifiques du Prince Albert 1er de Monaco by Thomson, John Arthur

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Title: Alcyonaires provenant des campagnes scientifiques du Prince Albert 1er de Monaco
Author: Thomson, John Arthur
Seller: Biomed Rare Books LLC, ABAA, ILAB (United States)
Description: Monaco: Albert I, Prince of Monaco, 1927. First edition. SCARCE LARGE FOLIO MONOGRAPH ON MARINE CORALS, PUBLISHED BY ALBERT I, PRINCE OF MONACO, ILLUSTRATED WITH FINE COLOR LITHOGRAPHS. Large folio, 11 x 14 inches tall printed transparent paper wraps over card covers which include the coat-of-arms of the Prince of Monaco. Text printed on heavy rag paper, 77 pp, unopened, 4 colored lithographed double-page plates with tisue guards, and 2 uncolored plates. Text in French. Cover edges age-toned, small chip in fore edge of transparent cover, text clean and unmarked, plates bright and clean, very good, in custom archival folder. This monograph is a fine example of late 19th century marine biology, with detailed descriptions and magnificant lithographs. It forms part of a series of scientific reports on marine life collected by Albert the 1st, Sovereign Prince of Monaco, collected from his yacht, Hirondelle. The report was printed under the direction of Prince Albert, with the approval of Jules Richard, doctor of science, chief of zoologic studies. ALBERT I, PRINCE OF MONACO (1848 – 1922) devoted much of his life to the study of the sea and oceans. At only 22 years old, he embarked on a career in the then relatively new science of oceanography. Understanding the importance of the relationship between living creatures and their environment, he devised a number of techniques and instruments for measurement and exploration. He founded the Oceanographic Institute Foundation Albert I, Prince of Monaco, a private foundation established in 1906. It has two buildings: The Oceanographic Institute of Paris, now renamed Ocean House, and what became the world-renowned Oceanographic Museum of Monaco. This includes an aquarium, a museum, and a library, with research facilities in Paris. He owned four research yachts, Hirondelle, Princesse Alice, Princesse Alice II and Hirondelle II. Accompanied by some of the world's leading marine scientists, he travelled the length and breadth of the Mediterranean, making numerous oceanographic studies, maps and charts. In 1918, the US National Academy of Sciences awarded Prince Albert its Alexander Agassiz Medal for his achievements. The Explorers Club elected Albert I to its highest category of membership — Honorary Member — in 1921. SIR JOHN ARTHUR THOMSON (1861 - 1933) was a Scottish naturalist who authored several notable books and was an expert on soft corals. Born in Saltoun, East Lothian, he taught at the Royal (Dick) Veterinary College from 1893 until 1899 then University of Aberdeen from 1899 until 1930, the year he was knighted. His popular works sought to reconcile science and religion. In his Gifford lectures and a number of books written with his friend Patrick Geddes he argued for a form of holistic biology in which the activity of the living organism could transcend the physical laws governing its component parts. Thomson had also promoted the importance of symbiosis and cooperation in nature as opposed to the idea of struggle. Octocorallia (also known as Alcyonaria) is a subclass of Anthozoa comprising around 3,000 species of water-based organisms formed of colonial polyps with 8-fold symmetry. It includes the blue coral, soft corals, sea pens, and gorgonians (sea fans and sea whips) within three orders: Alcyonacea, Helioporacea, and Pennatulacea. These organisms have an internal skeleton secreted by mesoglea and polyps with eight tentacles and eight mesentaries. As with all Cnidarians these organisms have a complex life cycle including a motile phase when they are considered plankton and later characteristic sessile phase. Octocorals resemble the stony corals in general appearance and in the size of their polyps, but lack the distinctive stony skeleton. Also unlike the stony corals, each polyp has only eight tentacles, each of which is feather-like in shape, with numerous side-branches, or pinnules.

Crusade, Commerce and Culture by Atiya, Aziz S.

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Title: Crusade, Commerce and Culture
Author: Atiya, Aziz S.
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Bloomington: Indiana University, 1962. 1st. Hardcover. Very good. Bound in the publisher's original cloth covered boards. Lightly rubbed at edges and extremities.

Chinese architecture by Xinian, Fu, et al.

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Title: Chinese architecture
Author: Xinian, Fu, et al.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (United States)
Description: New Haven, London and Bejing: Yale University Press and New World Press, 2002. 4to, pp. [14], 366, [4]; full color illustrations throughout; full red cloth; textblock edges just starting to tone, else fine in fine dust jacket.

Octave of Prayer by WHITE, Minor (editor)

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Title: Octave of Prayer
Author: WHITE, Minor (editor)
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780912334363
Description: New York: Aperture, 1972. First edition. Hardcover. 91 pages. Published in conjunction with an exhibition at MIT. Includes images from these photographers: Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Chris Gatewood, Jerry Uelsmann, Larry Sultan, Paul Strand, Carl Chiarenza and others. A near fine copy in cloth boards and in a near fine dust jacket with a long tear to the top of the front panel at the spine and some other minor wear. Much less common in the hardcover issue.

Beitrage zur Elefantenhaltung in Europa. EEKMA-Tagung. Duisburg, Februar 2004. by Winkler, Achim and Harald M. Schwammer.

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Title: Beitrage zur Elefantenhaltung in Europa. EEKMA-Tagung. Duisburg, Februar 2004.
Author: Winkler, Achim and Harald M. Schwammer.
Seller: Lighthouse Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: Munster: Schuling Verlag, 2005. Octavo, softbound (stiff white wrappers, 116 pp. Fine (As New). Contents: Frese, Reinhard: Vorwort; Winkler, Achim: Vorwort; Engel, Heiner & Kruse, Jurgen: Anmerkungen zur derzeitigen Elefantensituation im Zoo Hannover - Drei Themen kurz beruhrt; Fluger, Michael: Gerburt zweier Asiatischer Elefanten (Elephas maximus indicus) innerhalb der Herde - Beobachtungen und Erfahrungen; Ganswindt, Andre: Charakterisierung des Musth-Phanomens bei Afrikanischen Elefanten (Loxodonta africana); Hinke, Anglika & Wipplinger, Johannes: Haltungsbedingte Erkrankungen bei Elefanten - ein Uberblick; Hinke, Angelika, et al.: Retrospektive Betrachtungen zu einer Femurfraktur bei einem Afrikanischen Elefanten; Hoedemaker, Mario: Umstellung des Haltungsprinzips - free contact gegen protected contact; Kohl, Gerd: Teamarbeit - ein Schritt zur guten Elefantenhaltung; Kohrmann, Thorsten, et al: The First European Elephant Management School im Tierpark Hagenbeck in Hamburg;

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