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Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. Fr. J.G. de la Porte du Theil...dont la Vente se fera le mercredi 17 avril 1816, et jours suivans by (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LA PORTE DU THEIL, François Jean Gabriel de)

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Title: Catalogue des Livres de la Bibliothèque de feu M. Fr. J.G. de la Porte du Theil...dont la Vente se fera le mercredi 17 avril 1816, et jours suivans
Author: (AUCTION CATALOGUE: LA PORTE DU THEIL, François Jean Gabriel de)
Seller: Jonathan A. Hill, Bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Description: 2 p.l., xix, 334 pp., one leaf of ads. 8vo, cont. green sheep-backed boards, flat spine decorated in gilt & blind. Paris: Crapelet, 1816. The very rare auction catalogue of the library of La Porte du Theil (1742-1815), French Hellenist and conservator of manuscripts at the Royal Library; he played a role in the early attempts to decipher the Rosetta Stone. The collection was particularly rich in rare Italian books along with a fine collection of bibliography (lots 3248-3326). The preliminary leaves contain a valuable bio-bibliography of the collector by Silvestre de Sacy. Very good copy and priced throughout in a contemporary hand. 3486 lots. ❧ Grolier Club, Printed Catalogues of French Book Auctions…1643-1830, 564. N.B.G., Vol. 29, cols. 560-63.

Signed Photos By The Reagans To Lillian Gish The First Lady Of American Cinema Meets The Actual President And First Lady by RONALD REAGAN

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Title: Signed Photos By The Reagans To Lillian Gish The First Lady Of American Cinema Meets The Actual President And First Lady
Author: RONALD REAGAN
Seller: Stuart Lutz Historic Documents, Inc. (United States)
Description: RONALD REAGAN (1911-2004). Reagan was the Fortieth President.NANCY REAGAN (1921-2016). Reagan was First Lady.LILLIAN GISH (1893-1993). The long-lived Gish was a prolific film actress sometimes called The First Lady of American Cinema. Her first movie credit was in 1912, and her last was in 1987.PsS. N.d. [1981]. N.p. [Washington]. A pair of color photographs signed Ron and Nancy as President and First Lady. Taken at a 1981 White House event shortly after Reagans inauguration, the photos depict the Reagans with long-lived film actress Lillian Gish. Coming from a Hollywood background themselves, Ron and Nancy certainly would have known Gish, who was at this time still a working actress into her late eighties. Dear Lillian It was wonderful seeing you again. Lets do this more often. Warm Regards Ron and To my dear Lillian With much love Nancy. Both photos are in fine condition.

THE CHARACTER OF A CHRISTIAN HERO. A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY, ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING, JUNE 2D. 1746 by Walter, Nathaniel

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Title: THE CHARACTER OF A CHRISTIAN HERO. A SERMON PREACHED BEFORE THE ANCIENT AND HONOURABLE ARTILLERY COMPANY, ON THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING, JUNE 2D. 1746
Author: Walter, Nathaniel
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: Boston in New-England: Printed by J. Draper; for D. Henchman in Cornhill, 1746. 22pp, but lacking the half title and final blank. Disbound, scattered foxing, Good+. "All the World knows a Christian's Life is a Warfare. From the Moment we name the Name of Christ, become His Disciples, we engage with the Flesh, the World, and the Devil, in a Combat..." The Artillery Company is comprised of true Christian heroes: "From You, as from a Nursery, our Land is ever to be supplied with Officers perfectly skill'd in the Art of War, and who shall train up our Forces to an Expertness in military Exercise equal to any of his Britanic Majesty's: This, under God, will be the best Defence of our Land." Reverend Walter was Pastor of the Second Church of Christ in Roxbury. He was Chaplain of Colonel Richmond's regiment in the Louisburg expedition. Evans 5877. ESTC W37721.

TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF FELLOWS TO REVISE THE COURSE OF STUDIES IN BROWN UNIVERSITY, THE PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN & GREEK LANGUAGES & LITERATURE BEGS LEAVE TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING REPORT IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS WHICH THEY HAVE PROPOSED... by [Brown University] Elton, Romeo?

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Title: TO THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED BY THE BOARD OF FELLOWS TO REVISE THE COURSE OF STUDIES IN BROWN UNIVERSITY, THE PROFESSOR OF THE LATIN & GREEK LANGUAGES & LITERATURE BEGS LEAVE TO MAKE THE FOLLOWING REPORT IN ANSWER TO THE QUESTIONS WHICH THEY HAVE PROPOSED...
Author: [Brown University] Elton, Romeo?
Seller: David M. Lesser, Fine Antiquarian Books LLC (United States)
Description: [Providence, RI?, 1840. [8] pp, written on two folded folio sheets in ink manuscript. A couple of closed tears, repaired with a few letters affected. This is likely Elton's draft of a final Report, as it has lines which have been crossed out and replaced with others. Very Good. Our candidate for authorship, Romeo Elton, was the longtime Professor of the Latin and Greek Languages and Literature at Brown. Elton identifies and analyzes the text books in use in his Department. The "practice of frequently changing authors accords with the practice in the most distinguished universities in Europe. It has been adopted in this Institution as far as practicable & is attended with beneficial results " He is critical of "the Greek Grammar now used in this Institution." It is "defective in many points." He suggests adding Eschenberg's Manual of Classical Literature to the curriculum. Elton lauds the study of the Classics, and denounces "the indolent student," who fails to understand "the vigorous exercise which they furnish to the intellectual powers.

Homecoming (Signed First Edition) by Julia Alvarez

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Seller: Royal Books

Title: Homecoming (Signed First Edition)
Author: Julia Alvarez
Seller: Royal Books (United States)
ISBN: 9780394538556
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1985. First Edition. First Edition of the author's first book. SIGNED by the author on the title page. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Jacket is extremely bright, with a touch of rubbing at the spine ends and corners.

De la phthisie pulmonaire, ouvrage couronne en 1783, sur la question proposee en ces termes: determiner quels sont les signes qui annoncent une disposition a la phthisie pulmonaire, et quels sont les moyens d'en prevenir l'invasion ou d'en arreter les progres. by BAUMES, Jean Baptiste Timothee (1756-1828).

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Title: De la phthisie pulmonaire, ouvrage couronne en 1783, sur la question proposee en ces termes: determiner quels sont les signes qui annoncent une disposition a la phthisie pulmonaire, et quels sont les moyens d'en prevenir l'invasion ou d'en arreter les progres.
Author: BAUMES, Jean Baptiste Timothee (1756-1828).
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Montpellier:: G. Izar et A. Ricard, An III [1795]., 1795. Two volumes. 220 x 140 mm. 8vo. [2], viii, 536, [4]; [viii], 365 pp. Headpieces, tailpieces, indexes at end of Vol. II. Original wrappers, printed paper spine labels; extremities rubbed, spine chipped. Untrimmed. Fine. FIRST EDITION. Provides a summary of the latest understanding of pulmonary consumption. Baumes was active as a teacher, physician and as secretary of the Societe de Medecine Pratique, which he founded. Although he was the author of numerous medical works on pediatrics, the use of quinine for fevers, pulmonary disease, and a four-volume work on classification of diseases, his life and works are little-known by the usual authorities. Blake, NLM, p. 35; Hirsch, I, p. 334. Not in Wellcome, Waller. RLIN: UMich (lacks v.2), NLM, UMinn.

The Works of Francis Thompson [Vols. I & II: Poems / Vol. III: Prose] by Francis Thompson

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Title: The Works of Francis Thompson [Vols. I & II: Poems / Vol. III: Prose]
Author: Francis Thompson
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: Burns & Oates Ltd, 1913. Very Good. London: Burns & Oates Ltd, 1913. First Edition. Three volumes; octavo; full contemporary polished calf by Riviere, gilt-tooled margins, gilt spines in six compartments with crimson and tan spine labels, marbled endpapers; engraved portrait frontispieces (tissue-guards). Leather rather rubbed and dried at margins, small loss at spine crown of Vol. I, raised bands scuffed and front joint of Vol. III starting; internally sound, with light foxing and finger-soil to preliminaries, contemporary pencil gift inscription to front free endpaper of Vol. I; overall a Very Good set in attractive, albeit flawed, Riviere bindings.

Greyhounds of the Sea by CUTLER, Carl C.

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Title: Greyhounds of the Sea
Author: CUTLER, Carl C.
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
Condition: Some light wear at corners, a few leaves roughly opened with short tears, but otherwise a very clean and handsomely bound copy
Description: New York: G. P. Putnam's, 1930. Some light wear at corners, a few leaves roughly opened with short tears, but otherwise a very clean and handsomely bound copy. 4to (26.5 x 19.5 cm). xxvii, 380 pages. Color frontispiece and plates, with captioned tissue guards. Specially bound, presumably a gift binding, in quarter green morocco, decorated paper boards, the spine gilt-lettered and with gilt dolphin tool, top edges gilt, others untrimmed, "C.B.F.B. 1934" stamped in gilt on front turn-in. First edition.

Aaron Curry: MMNKTLPLKT by CURRY, Aaron

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Title: Aaron Curry: MMNKTLPLKT
Author: CURRY, Aaron
Seller: Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (United States)
ISBN: 9781885013842
Condition: A near-fine copy
Description: New York: Michael Werner, 2011. A near-fine copy. 11.5 x 8 inches. Profusely illustrated in color. Original wrappers, with acetate covering. First edition. "Michael Werner Gallery is pleased to announce MMNKTLPLKT, an exhibition of new works by Aaron Curry, on view at 20 Hoxton Square in London from 20 September through 20 October. With MMNKTLPLKT, Aaron Curry disregards the confines of the traditional white cube to create an environment of complete optical immersion and confusion. Dazzling patterns cover the walls and floor of the gallery, alternately mirroring and obscuring the painted sculptures that stand, lean and hang throughout the space. The exhibition continues across the street from the gallery with two monumental sculptures installed in Hoxton Square Park. This ambitious installation brings to a new level of complexity the artist’s exploration of the relationships between drawing and form, abstraction and figuration, and spaces both real and virtual. The result is a contemporary Merzbau, resounding with echoes of surrealist abstraction, Picasso and the digitized dimensions of cyberspace" (the publisher).

Portrait of a Mixed-Race Kansan Family, c. 1885–1890 by [Kansas – Race Relations] Dunham & Stidham

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Title: Portrait of a Mixed-Race Kansan Family, c. 1885–1890
Author: [Kansas – Race Relations] Dunham & Stidham
Seller: Auger Down Books (United States)
Condition: Excellent to Near Fine.
Description: Jewell City, Kansas: Dunham & Stidham, 1890. Cabinet card measuring 6 ½ x 4 ¼ inches. Pencil verso reads “Dora”. Some foxing to mount; photo with excellent contrast. Excellent to Near Fine.. A family portrait appearing to show a mixed-race couple and their children, taken by Dunham & Stidham in Jewell City, Kansas. Newspaper records indicate that Dunham & Stidham were active in Jewell City (now Jewell) between 1885 and 1890. Interestingly, despite Kansas’ fraught racial history, it was early to get rid of anti-miscegenation laws, repealing its law—which forbade marriage only between white and Black people—in 1859, prior to statehood.

Murder in Trinidad: A Case in the Career of Bertram Lynch, P.C.B. by Vandercook, John W.

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Title: Murder in Trinidad: A Case in the Career of Bertram Lynch, P.C.B.
Author: Vandercook, John W.
Seller: ReadInk (United States)
Condition: Near Fine in Very Good+ dj
Description: New York: Grosset & Dunlap. Near Fine in Very Good+ dj. (c.1933). Reprint. Hardcover. [a good sound copy, light foxing on bottom edge of text block but no other significant wear, one-time owner's name on front endpaper, more recent owner's initials plus date & place of purchase along edge of rear pastedown (beneath jacket flap); the attractive skull-themed jacket is a bit edgeworn, with a few small closed tears, slight fading at the spine] The first mystery to feature Bertram Lynch, ace investigator for the top-secret Permanent __________ of the League of Nations (does the United Nations have "ace investigators," I wonder?), who is here called upon to look into the murder of one of his colleagues. In so doing, he traces "the dangerous trail of murder through the little gin-mills in Port of Spain's underworld fringe, through guest houses in stately residential streets, through the tangled life of the tropical city into the hidden depths of the Caroni." The book was filmed (under the same title) by the Fox Film Corporation in 1933, with Nigel Bruce (later Dr. Watson to Basil Rathbone's Sherlock Holmes) as Lynch, and is also said to have loosely inspired two later films, MR. MOTO IN DANGER ISLAND (1939) and THE CARIBBEAN MYSTERY (1945). Issued a few years later in a Triangle Books editon of markedly inferior quality. .

The Dream of Arcadia: American Writers and Artists in Italy 1760-1915 by Brooks, Van Wyck

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Title: The Dream of Arcadia: American Writers and Artists in Italy 1760-1915
Author: Brooks, Van Wyck
Seller: De Simone Company, Booksellers (United States)
Description: New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1958. 8vo. 205 x 135 mm., [8 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches]. [16], 272 pp. Gray publisher's cloth, embossed publisher's mark on upper board, blue label on spine, dust jacket. Some very minor fraying to head and tail of spine, dust jacket with scrape to outer edge of front wrapper and tiny chips at head and tail of spine. First edition inscribed "For Julius Teller with affection Van Wyck Brooks/ 1958". Van Wyck Brooks, the noted historian, Pulitzer Prize winner, and National Book Award recipient, investigates the experience of American writers and artists in Italy before the WWI. Focusing on Prescott, Bancroft, Cooper, Longfellow, Hawthorne, Adams, Twain, Wharton and Howells, and artists like West, Copley, Greenough and Powers, Brooks delves into the impact of Italy on the creations that came organically from this seductive country. In doing so he offers insights into the changing nature of Italy over a century and a half since Americans began to travel to the cities of the ancient world and Renaissance period.

A Public Service Report. The FBI: Tool of the Justice Department by The Church of Sceintology of California

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Title: A Public Service Report. The FBI: Tool of the Justice Department
Author: The Church of Sceintology of California
Seller: ZH BOOKS (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: S. l.: The Church of Scientology, 1978. First Edition. Very good. First edition; 8 1/2 x 5 1/2; pp. 1-12; green wraps, decorated with vignettes of the shields of the Department of Justice and of the FBI; previous owner's signature to half-title page; age-toning along margins of wraps and a few small creases; in very good condition.Begining with: "The Freedom of Information Act may well turn out to be the most stringent safeguard ever placed on Federal agencies and employees," the booklet presented scathing criticism and disapproval of the FBI, the Government, which supported it, etc. by the controversial Church of Scientology - the group of interconnected entities, often described as a "dangerous cult and a manipulative profit-making business."

AMOS & BORIS by Steig, William

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Title: AMOS & BORIS
Author: Steig, William
Seller: Type Punch Matrix (United States)
ISBN: 9780374302788
Condition: Near fine in very good dust jacket.
Description: New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971. Near fine in very good dust jacket.. First printing of this story of an unlikely pair of friends - a mouse and a whale - who are always there to help each other. William Steig has the distinction of being nominated twice for the Hans Christian Andersen Award - once as an artist, and once as an author. He has also earned a Caldecott Medal, and the adoration of children and adults for his beloved SHREK! and its associated films. 9'' x 10.25''. Original cloth boards. Original unclipped ($4.50) color pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated in color. [32] pages. Jacket with some toning and edgewear, a couple tiny chips. Binding with mild edgewear. Interior clean.

Who Started It by Wakimoto, M. C.

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Title: Who Started It
Author: Wakimoto, M. C.
Seller: McBlain Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: Boston: Meador Publishing Company, 1956. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. 332p. Original green cloth which is lettered in green on backstrip and front cover. 21 cm. Jacket has moderate soiling and some foxing and edge-wear Modest paper adhesion from jacket on cover lettering as well as stronger offsetting of titling to inside of jacket. An earnest novel, in need of some editiing, about racism, passing, etc. -- we did not not read it carefully and found no synopsis online. OCLC locates 11 copies. We suspect that Wakimoto is a pseudonym but have no information about the author's real name or racial identity.

Little Snow Bear, An Original American Tale (Flavia's Dream Maker Series) by Weedn, Flavia & Gilbert, Lisa Weedn

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Title: Little Snow Bear, An Original American Tale (Flavia's Dream Maker Series)
Author: Weedn, Flavia & Gilbert, Lisa Weedn
Seller: E M Maurice Books, LLC, ABAA (United States)
ISBN: 9780786800445
Condition: Fine
Description: New York: Hyperion, 1995 Pictorial boards in matching dust jacket with price intact ($10.95). A lonely little bear decides to make a friend out of snow. Illustrated in color throughout. . First Printing. Pictorial Boards. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Flavia Weedn. Oblong 12mo.

Lieutenant Ralph Osborn Aboard a Torpedo Boat Destroyer by Beach, Commander Edward L

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Title: Lieutenant Ralph Osborn Aboard a Torpedo Boat Destroyer
Author: Beach, Commander Edward L
Seller: Crooked House Books & Paper (United States)
Condition: Good
Description: Boston: W.A. Wilde Company, 1912. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Merrill, Frank T. Green pictorial cloth, 12 mo, 342 pages; boards are mottled in places and edge worn, inscription on front free end paper dated 1912, text is clean with no markings, binding is sound; no dust jacket.

Accent on Life by Armitage, Merle; foreword by John Charles Thomas

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Title: Accent on Life
Author: Armitage, Merle; foreword by John Charles Thomas
Seller: James & Mary Laurie Booksellers (A.B.A.A.) (United States)
Condition: Book fine, Dust jacket fine.
Description: Ames, Iowa: Iowa State University Press, 1965. 1st. Hardcover. Book fine, Dust jacket fine..

The Remarkable Mr. Franklin by Whitley, Benjamin

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Title: The Remarkable Mr. Franklin
Author: Whitley, Benjamin
Seller: Kaaterskill Books, ABAA/ILAB (United States)
Condition: Nick to edge of one leaf, else a fine copy.
Description: Kansas City: Hallmark Children's Editions, n.d.. First edition. Illustrated paper-covered boards. Nick to edge of one leaf, else a fine copy.. Unpaged [14 pp]. Illus. with pop-up color drawings. 8vo. Carol Bryan, illus.

The Collector's Book of the Locomotive by ALEXANDER, Edwin P.

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Title: The Collector's Book of the Locomotive
Author: ALEXANDER, Edwin P.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA (United States)
Description: New York: Clarkson N. Potter, Inc. Publisher, 1966. First edition. Hardcover. First printing. Includes over 150 black and white illustrations and an additional 44 in color. A tight near fine copy in a close to near fine dust jacket with some slight wear.

COUNTER

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Title: COUNTER
Seller: Oak Knoll Books/Oak Knoll Press (United States)
Description: Iowa City, IA: University of Iowa Center for the Book, 1996. self paper wrappers. small 4to. self paper wrappers. 30 pages. Number 5, Fall 1996. Table of contents. Includes articles, reviews, notes on contributors. Tipped in paper specimens. Black and white illustrations.

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