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Joanne de Mandavilla, Qual tratta delle piu maravegliose cose e piu notabile che si trovino e come presentialmente ha cercato tutte le parte habitabile del mondo & ha notato alcune degne cose che ha vedute en esse parte by Mandeville, John (fl. 14th c.)

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Title: Joanne de Mandavilla, Qual tratta delle piu maravegliose cose e piu notabile che si trovino e come presentialmente ha cercato tutte le parte habitabile del mondo & ha notato alcune degne cose che ha vedute en esse parte
Author: Mandeville, John (fl. 14th c.)
Seller: Liber Antiquus (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: Venice: per Aluise Torti, 1537. A rare Italian edition of John Mandeville’s “Travels”. The first Italian edition appeared in 1480 at Milan. Hardcover. Fine. An unsophisticated copy bound in its original carta rustica binding (soiled, surface wear, small losses at head of spine and small defect at foot.) Contents shaken, title soiled, mild damp-staining and soiling to the text, very slim worm-trail in lower margin of some gatherings, just entering the text in a few places. Title page with woodcut border. Small stains on lsv. +2-4 and B8. A wildly successful collection of medieval travelers’ tales to the Holy Land, China, India, and other exotic lands both real (Ethiopia) and imagined (the land of the Amazons), embellished with accounts of strange peoples and fantastic animals, all narrated by a certain John Mandeville, based (so he claims) on his own experiences, and offered as a guide for would-be travelers. “The actual author of the tales remains as uncertain as the existence of the English knight Sir John Mandeville himself. The book originated in French about 1356–57 and was soon translated into many languages, an English version appearing about 1375. The narrator Mandeville identifies himself as a knight of St. Albans. Incapacitated by arthritic gout, he has undertaken to stave off boredom by writing of his travels, which began on Michaelmas Day (September 29) 1322, and from which he returned in 1356.”(EB) “The book was a contemporary bestseller, providing readers with exotic information about locales from Constantinople to China and about the social and religious practices of peoples such as the Greeks, Muslims, and Brahmins. The book first appeared in the middle of the fourteenth century and by the next century could be found in an extraordinary range of European languages. Its wide readership is also attested by the two hundred and fifty to three hundred medieval manuscripts that still survive today. One scholar even insists that “few literate men in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries could have avoided coming across the Travels at some time.” Among others, Chaucer borrowed from it; Christopher Columbus apparently consulted the work, as did Sir Walter Ralegh. “The sources that lie behind the work are so many and varied that a better alternative title for the work than ‘Mandeville’s Travels’ might have been ‘Mandeville’s Library’. The two most important works behind the book were written in the 1330s by authentic clerical travelers. The primary source for the first part of the Book (travel to and around Jerusalem) is the Liber de Quibusdam Ultramarinis Partibus (a.k.a. the Itinerarius) by the German Dominican William of Boldensele, whereas that for the second part (travel farther east) is Friar Odoric of Pordenone’s Itinerarius, which tells of the Franciscan’s missionary experiences in China and India. Portions of many other works, also apparently known to the Mandeville-author primarily in French translation, were also used to make up the Book: these include some of the most learned and influential reference works of the Middle Ages, such as Vincent de Beauvais’ Speculum Historiale and Speculum Naturale and Brunetto Latini’s Li Livres dou Tresors, as well as older authorities such as Macrobius and Isidore of Seville. Scholars have also identified material taken from other travel books and from writings as varied as saints’ lives (Jacobus of Voragine’s Legenda Aurea), historical romances (those about Alexander), and at least one scientific work (John of Sacrobosco’s De Sphaera). The author’s skill as a compiler is revealed in the deftness with which he melds these various sources into a convincing whole, principally by means of the voice and personality of his narrator: the alert, energetic, and always eager to instruct Sir John Mandeville… “The Book begins with a preface that seems to present the work as a guide for pilgrims to Jerusalem, a well-known medieval genre. Sir John announces that in addition to the Holy Land, he has journeyed to stranger, non-biblical lands, including Ethiopia and India [and] promises to tell of “many diverse folk of manners and diverse laws and shapes”. The Book proper opens with a description of Constantinople and the routes by which to go there. Dramatic contrasts in subject matter, such as the description of St. John the Evangelist’s tomb at Ephesus followed by a story of a woman changed into a dragon who can return to human shape only with a knight’s kiss, enliven the Book. “Sir John then gives various routes to Jerusalem and outlines the sights along their ways. After a large section about Egypt, the works tells about the Holy Land itself. Important surrounding sites are recorded, such as Bethlehem, but it is Jerusalem that is described in most detail, especially those places associated with major Jewish figures such as David and with the life and death of Christ. At times, the account reads very much like a guide for travelers: we are told of the spatial relationship of one building to another and specific points of their individual architecture. Sir John emphasizes that Jerusalem is now controlled by Muslims, and he records a long conversation that he had with their Sultan, who details the many moral failings of contemporary Christians that have caused God to deprive them of the Holy Land. “Although Jerusalem may be at the center of the world and the ultimate aim of religious pilgrims, it cannot hold such an insatiable traveler as Sir John. He is soon away to more remote and exotic climes and cultures. After passing through Armenia, he continues further east through the land of Job, the country of the Amazons, and Ethiopia, some of whose people have only one foot, which, in addition to propelling them quickly, serves to shade their bodies from the sun. Sir John eventually reaches the lands around India with their various and exotic religions — some worship snakes (lines 1586–87) and others allow themselves to be crushed under the wheels of a chariot bearing their idol (lines 1655–59). After a discussion of the roundness of the world (lines 1687–1778) and mention of additional marvels, such as men and women with heads like dogs (lines 1854–68) or others with both male and female genitals (lines 1892–95), Sir John arrives in China and describes the almost unimaginable wealth, luxury, and pomp at the court of the Great Khan with a full account of the realm’s particular laws and customs (lines 1968–2017, 2100 ff.). As he continues on, Sir John encounters additional strange beings and practices, and, after a warning about the dangers that Jews will pose at the time of the Antichrist (lines 2366–82), he describes Prester John (an emperor and a priest), who though allied with the Khan is a Christian, but not a Catholic (lines 2392 ff.). Near the end of his Book, Sir John describes a kind of ideal society: that of the Brahmins and Synoplians, who even though they lack Christian revelation follow its essential precepts by natural law and whose faith, simple life, and love and charity toward one another make them beloved of God (lines 2573–2637). After observing gold-digging ants in Ceylon, passing by but not being able to visit the Earthly Paradise (lines 2681–2706), and describing the Tibetan practice by which a son honors his dead father by offering his body to birds and the flesh of his head to special friends (lines 2763–83), Sir John, having circumnavigated the earth, returns home to England to rest in his old age. “Debate about the identity of the author also continues. Some popular English opinion still holds out for Sir John Mandeville — there is a plaque in his honor in St. Albans Cathedral and a Fleet Street veteran has recently taken up his cause — but scholars have also suggested other candidates, including Jean d’Outremeuse, a notary of Liège, and Brother Jean de Long of the Benedictine Abbey Church of St. Bertin. It seems unlikely that we shall ever be certain about the authorship of the Book. Indeed, applying the term author to this work is imprecise and somewhat misleading. Obviously someone first assembled the materials we know as The Book of John Mandeville, but, as has been noted, he borrowed rather than created most of those contents. Rather than a wholly original author, Mandeville is best considered a compiler, one who collects and rearranges the writings of others into a new form. Just as whoever first put together the Book combined and rewrote previous texts, the work he produced proved equally malleable, for it was itself, in turn, adapted, abridged, and supplemented by later redactors in a variety of ways including but not limited to the kinds of alterations to the narrative voice we have already discussed. What we call the Book resists precise definition because it differs from version to version as well as from text to text within a particular version. The Book of John Mandeville refers less to a single stable entity than to what Iain Higgins, in the most illuminating current study of the work, has called a “multi-text.” The original composition of the Book did not fix the work because it was so quickly and variously transformed by those who received it.” (Kohanski and Benson, The Book of John Mandeville: Introduction (2007).

The General History of China Containing a Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political, and Physical Description of the Empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet by [Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste] [Richard Brookes, translator]

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Title: The General History of China Containing a Geographical, Historical, Chronological, Political, and Physical Description of the Empire of China, Chinese-Tartary, Corea, and Thibet
Author: [Du Halde, Jean-Baptiste] [Richard Brookes, translator]
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: London: Printed by and for John Watts, 1736. First edition in English. Near Fine. First published in French in Paris the previous year. Four volumes, octavo (120 x 192 mm). [14], 509; [12], 438; [14], 496; [14], 464 pp. Complete with nineteen plates (eleven folding), including the four frontispieces, and four folding maps. Full contemporary polished calf. Volumes one and two rebacked with original spines laid down. Some edgewear and bumping to corners. Armorial bookplate to upper pastedown of each volume. Small hole to upper flyleaf of volume one; upper flyleaf of volume four coming loose (but still holding). Archival tape repair to verso of one map. Small contemporary ink ownership signature to each title-page. A very handsome set, remarkably clean and fresh throughout. Near Fine. Though Jean-Baptise Du Halde (1674 - 1743) never traveled to the land he described in his work, he used the accounts of Jesuit missionaries to compile an encyclopedic description of all aspects of Chinese society - from religion to language to silkworm breeding. The General History of China was "more elaborate and authentic than any other account of the empire that had appeared previously...it was an encyclopaedia of information, a rich quarry for writers who happened to be interested in Chinese affairs in the mid-eighteenth-century" (Löwendahl, Bibliotheca Asiatica). The work "served as the premier source of European knowledge of China for much of the eighteenth century" and was admired by Voltaire (Royal Collection Trust). Near Fine.

Three Southworth & Hawes Daguerreotype Portraits of William B. Reynolds and Elizabeth M. Carter, circa 1850 by REYNOLDS, William Belcher and Elizabeth Margaret (Carter). (Southworth & Hawes)

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Title: Three Southworth & Hawes Daguerreotype Portraits of William B. Reynolds and Elizabeth M. Carter, circa 1850
Author: REYNOLDS, William Belcher and Elizabeth Margaret (Carter). (Southworth & Hawes)
Seller: Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: [Boston, 1850. Near Fine. A collection of three Daguerreotypes consisting of one large half plate portrait of William B. Reynolds, and two individual sixth plate portraits: one of Reynolds, and one of his wife Elizabeth. All three images are neatly housed in the original leather cases (with an interior brass mat, preserver, and felt cushion lining). The cases are lightly rubbed, modest shadow toning at the edges of the half plate image, the sixth plate portraits have modest spotting at the corner edges of the brass mat, near fine overall. All three cases match those used by Southworth & Hawes at their portrait studio in Boston during the mid-19th century, and the Reynolds are listed in the studio’s record books. William Belcher Reynolds (1797-1866) was a prominent Boston merchant and founder of St. Paul’s Church in Boston. His half plate portrait bears a close resemblance to Southworth & Hawes famous portrait of statesman Daniel Webster. The sixth plate portraits of Reynolds and his wife are equally striking, and appear to have been taken at about the same time. The partnership of Southworth and Hawes was established in Boston at the dawn of photography in the 1840s, and resulted in some of the most stunning portraits ever made. From 1843 to 1861 the partners achieved considerable fame as the most fashionable portrait studio in Boston. They also experimented continually to improve on all aspects of the daguerreotype process. A scarce, beautifully preserved collection of three Daguerreotypes representative of Southworth and Hawes finest portraits.

Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action. WITH: The Theory of p-n Junctions in Semiconductors and p-n Junction Transistors. Et al by Bardeen, John; Brattain, Walter; Shockley, William

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Title: Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action. WITH: The Theory of p-n Junctions in Semiconductors and p-n Junction Transistors. Et al
Author: Bardeen, John; Brattain, Walter; Shockley, William
Seller: The Manhattan Rare Book Company (United States)
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Fine. FIRST EDITION of two landmark journals documenting the revolutionary invention of the transistor: the April 1949 issue of The Bell System Technical Journal containing the first description of the invention (published simultaneously in The Physical Review), and the famous July 1949 "Semiconductor Issue" dedicated entirely to the discuss of the transistor and semiconductor devices. The entire 1949 volume offered. "In the 1930s, Bell Labs scientists were trying to use ultrahigh frequency waves for telephone communications, and needed a more reliable detection method than the vacuum tube, which proved incapable of picking up rapid vibrations... John Bardeen, Walter Brattain and William Shockley spearheaded the Bell Labs effort to develop a new means of amplification," developing, by 1948, a novel device that would effectively amplify and control electric signals. "At roughly half an inch high, the first transistor was huge by today's standards, when 7 million transistors can fit onto a single silicon chip. But it was the very first solid state device capable of doing the amplification work of a vacuum tube, earning Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1956. More significantly, it spawned an entire industry and ushered in the Information Age, revolutionizing global society" (The American Physical Society). The 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded jointly to William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain "for their researches on semiconductors and their discovery of the transistor effect". Also included is Claude Shannon's Communication Theory of Secrecy Systems (pp. 656-715). BARDEEN, J., and BRATTAIN, W. H. Physical Principles Involved in Transistor Action. In The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 2, April 1949 (pp. 239-277). WITH: BARDEEN, J., and BRATTAIN, W.H., and SHOCKLEY, W., et al. The Bell System Technical Journal, Vol. 28, No. 3. July, 1949. New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Company, 1949. Octavo, contemporary blue buckram. The whole volume with all the issues for 1949 (753 pages, complete with contents and index). Fine copy.

[Memory Book of a High School and Art Student] by Van Lopik, Gertrude

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Title: [Memory Book of a High School and Art Student]
Author: Van Lopik, Gertrude
Seller: Langdon Manor Books LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: Colorado and Michigan, 1916. Very good. Suede over flexible card, handmade school emblem to front. Pp. 136 with copious illustrations, 56 photographs, 102 clippings and 68 items of ephemera adhered (17 are laid in). Photos range from around ½" x ½" to 6½" x 3" and a handful are captioned. Very good minus: covers lightly pilled and soiled; most leaves wavy, one detached; a few bits of loss from former adhesion; some scattered faint spotting and foxing. This is a substantial memory book beautifully handcrafted by an art student in Colorado, Gertrude Van Lopik. Gertrude Elizabeth Van Lopik was born in Michigan in 1894. Her family moved to Colorado and she graduated from Colorado Springs High School in 1914. By 1919 she was teaching art in Detroit public schools and through the 1920s she made national headlines for facilitating the arrest of Rev. R.A.M. Brown, "one of the country's most notorious love pirates" (and her former beau) for bigamy and check fraud. She married Allison Lawton Jones in 1926, and started a family in Detroit. We gather that at some point she retired to Florida; we found a website for Gertrude Vacation Rentals, "dedicated to Gertrude Van-Lopik Jones, an early pioneer of both adventure and life experience travel, vigorous lover of life, Siesta Key resident, and model for standing above the everyday." The present item is largely Gertrude's handmade high school memory book. It has lovely hand-colored page borders and headings, and autographs of what might be the entire student body (as well as some faculty), many denoting club officers and college plans. There are photos of Van Lopik "As the greenest of Freshies," posed for portraits, celebrating "Sweet Sixteen!" and the summer after graduation with friends at Denver City Park and "Some Carnival! at Grand Haven, Mich." She pasted in copious clippings from school publications, many with images like the "English department at work," "Faculty Females on a Spree" and identified "Football leaders." Keepsakes include dance cards, programs for plays and other events, clippings and campaign ephemera revealing members of the school "Senate" and other associations. Many pages hold her handwritten observations on social encounters and reports of graduation gifts. The book also documents Lopik's tenure at the Colorado Springs Academy of Fine Arts. There are several images of her work, clipped from newspapers and what might be school publications, as well as ephemera from the annual students' exhibition. One great photo shows a mixed-sex, androgynously-dressed group of students "Fussing! Not exactly" and there's a charming list of questions and their answers "with 2 words beginning with your initials" (our favorites: "What is your occupation? Giving Love" and "Do you sing? Glory, Loads"). A lovely and creative memory and autograph book of a young woman in Colorado.

THE TRIAL AT LARGE OF HER MAJESTY CAROLINE AMELIA ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN:; in the House of Lords, on charges of adulterous intercourse; containing a full and accurate detail of the evidence of the witnesses, the speeches of counsel, and all other proceedings in this extraordinary trial. The examinations of the witnesses, and the document testimony, printed verbatim from the Authenticated Journals of the House of Peers: the whole illustrated by explanatory notes and embellished with faithful and highly-finished portraits, &c. In two volumes

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Title: THE TRIAL AT LARGE OF HER MAJESTY CAROLINE AMELIA ELIZABETH, QUEEN OF GREAT BRITAIN:; in the House of Lords, on charges of adulterous intercourse; containing a full and accurate detail of the evidence of the witnesses, the speeches of counsel, and all other proceedings in this extraordinary trial. The examinations of the witnesses, and the document testimony, printed verbatim from the Authenticated Journals of the House of Peers: the whole illustrated by explanatory notes and embellished with faithful and highly-finished portraits, &c. In two volumes
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Description: London: Kelly, 1821. One of a number of editions issued the same year. 8vo, pp. xx, 664; viii,719. Bound in contemporary tree calf (rebacked in calf), with new end papers, half title in each volume. Double page engraved title-page in each volume. Illustrated with 24 (of 25) engraved portraits. A very good copy, some foxed. Queen of George IV, Caroline lived in great disfavor with the crown after the birth of her daughter. She was tried for her relations with her Italian courtier, Louis Bergami. Attempts to pass a bill divorcing her from the King were unsuccessful.

The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law Applied to the.. by Vattel, E. de; Fenwick, Charles D. (Trans.)

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Title: The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law Applied to the..
Author: Vattel, E. de; Fenwick, Charles D. (Trans.)
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ISBN: 9780899419442
Description: 1995. ISBN-10: 0899419445 ISBN-13: 9780899419442. Vattel, E[mmerich] de [1714-1767]. The Law of Nations or the Principles of Natural Law Applied to the Conduct and to the Affairs of Nations and of Sovereigns. Translation of the Edition of 1758 by Charles G. Fenwick. With an Introduction by Albert De Lapradelle. Washington, D.C.: Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1916. Reprint. Buffalo: W.S. Hein, 1995. lix, 28a, 398 pp. Tan buckram hardcover with black spine lettering. New. $195. * Volume 3 of this title, being the complete English translation, in the series The Classics of International Law, edited by James Brown Scott, published by the Carnegie Institution.

PAST AND PRESENT by Carlyle, Thomas

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Title: PAST AND PRESENT
Author: Carlyle, Thomas
Seller: Charles Parkhurst Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Very Good-
Description: London: Chapman & Hall, 1843. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good-. Octavo. A very good- copy bound in original brown cloth with pale yellow endpapers. Rear inner hinge cracked. Wear, slight loss to spine tips. Scattered foxing. vi, 399 pp.

WRITERS WRITING DYING by Williams, C.K.

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Title: WRITERS WRITING DYING
Author: Williams, C.K.
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ISBN: 9780374293321
Condition: Good
Description: NY: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2012. First edition, first prnt. Signed by Williams on the title page. Backstrip ends lightly pushed. Near Fine condition in a Fine dustjacket with an archival cover. Uncommon signed. Hardcovers. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

In and Around the Isle of Purbeck by Woodward, Ida

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Title: In and Around the Isle of Purbeck
Author: Woodward, Ida
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Description: New York: John Lane Company, 1908. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. color frontis and illustrations (by John W. G. Bond), xiv, 237p. Green cloth. 26cm. Cover has some scuffing and minor wear. Cover cloth bubbling along front joint. Free endpaper creased. No Jacket.

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