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English Bread and Yeast Cookery by David, Elizabeth

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Title: English Bread and Yeast Cookery
Author: David, Elizabeth
Seller: lizzyoung bookseller (United States)
Description: London: Allen Lane, 1977. First Edition. 591 pages. 22 x 14.5 cm. This was Elizabeth David's own copy, heavily annotated, with more than fifteen pages of her handwritten notes laid in. The extensive notes written in David's hand were corrections used for the revised edition. It comes from the estate of her editor, Jill Norman, to whom the book is dedicated: "To Jill Norman, Affectionately" - David states in the Acknowledgements: "I have dedicated the book to her (Jill Norman) because she has nursed it along chapter by chapter and stage by stage, has supervised every aspect of its production, has certainly worked on it as hard and become almost as involved in its subject as I myself. Together we have visited mills and talked to millers, we have both tested many times all the bread flours and meals used for the recipes in this book; it has been a happy collaboration." David's English Bread and Yeast Cookery is both a technical guide and a historical study of British bread - becoming one of the foundational texts of the late-20th-century "real bread" movement in Britain. Many commentators treat English Bread and Yeast Cookery as David's "masterpiece" of English food, marking a turn from her earlier Mediterranean escapism to a rigorous engagement with native British traditions. She mines a wide range of historical sources to reconstruct techniques and products that are often poorly documented. The book's extended discussions of flours, grains, grinding, sifting, and leavening are also notable for debunking popular myths about bread and explaining the sensory and nutritional differences between industrial and traditional methods. For food historians, it remains a key secondary source and point of entry into the historic study of baking, particularly for topics like legal regulation, milling practices, and named regional or historical breads. The exhaustive notes and annotations in this copy show that David continued to revise a book that had already taken five years to write, carrying on her editing even after publication. David combs through every part of the book, correcting errors and adding revisions. While most of her notes are precise and historical, some are wryly entertaining, as when she reflects on Christmas: "Hugh Johnson once called the season of the Great Too Much. That means too much work as well as too much food and too much eating. Above all too much pressure. I only hope that nothing I have written here will add to anybody's work and anxiety at Christmas time. I hope indeed that something here and there will help to make the preparations easier, particularly for those who feel harried by advertising and the annual hysteria of the media into doing more than they can reasonably manage, and spending more than they can afford on things nobody really wants or needs." Also included are a few letters from readers querying specific recipes, along with correspondence correcting misattributed information. A pamphlet from a Cambridgeshire milling firm is laid in as well.

BAKING POWDER by Atkinson, Thomas G.

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Title: BAKING POWDER
Author: Atkinson, Thomas G.
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Condition: Tan paper covered boards. Very good
Description: Chicago: The Commonwealth Press, 1915. Hardcover. Tan paper covered boards. Very good. 58 pages. 21 x 15 cm. Domestic Science Text Book. Chapters include: Ingredients of Baking Powder, Choice of "Acid" Ingredient, Manufacture and Use, Available Carbon Dioxide, and Conclusion. Clean copy, 2 cm. scratch to front cover.

Nineteenth century watercolor of the Schaffhausen Falls on the Rhine by Anon.

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Title: Nineteenth century watercolor of the Schaffhausen Falls on the Rhine
Author: Anon.
Seller: Palinurus Antiquarian Books (United States)
Condition: Very good.
Description: American [?], ca. 1850. Unique.. Very good.. An accomplished 19th century color gouache meas. 7.5 x 12 inches of a raging river waterfall. An ink notation on the verso of the backing board locates the scene as being : ' [obscured] Falls, New York ' . This is incorrect. The place is actually on the Rhine and the drawing depicts the Schaffhausen Falls. There is another (later) notation stating that the signature of A B Durand has been obliterated. The painting is not by Durand. It is executed on thick paper that had, at one time, been mounted to a backing board around its edges, wet, and shrunk to fit (a common method of preparation). The painting shows a high degree of skill in its execution. It is an evocative scene.

Political Tracts by JOHNSON Samuel

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Title: Political Tracts
Author: JOHNSON Samuel
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Description: 1776. First Edition. JOHNSON, Samuel. Political Tracts. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1776. Octavo, late 19-century three-quarter polished black calf and marbled boards, brown gilt-stamped spine labels. $1500.First edition of Johnson's four anonymously published political tracts, together in one volume for the first time, False Alarm (1770), Falkland's Islands (1771), The Patriot (1774) and Taxation No Tyranny (1775), his provocative attack on American colonists and the First Continental Congress, handsomely bound.Johnson, famed for his Dictionary (1755), expressed his political and social attitudes ""in vigorous controversial fashion, to specific issues and events in the four political pamphlets he wrote in the 1770s."" This volume, which brings together those four works for the first time, is especially notable for containing his notorious ""anti-American pamphlet, Taxation No Tyranny"" (Wain, 280-85). Johnson had a ""pitiless and violent hatred of the American Revolution"" and Taxation, originally issued in a 1775 edition of 500 copies, was so incendiary that it helped sever the Anglo-American bond (Hitchens, Atlantic). In it he belittles the First Continental Congress, declaring its resolutions ""wild, indefinite and obscure the madness of independence has spread."" He also targets colonists ""for their hatred of authority, their unseemly scramble for money, and especially their dependence on slaves Likewise, many colonists saw in Johnson everything they disliked about the mother countryand yet they continued to read, and even admire, the work of this propagandist for King George III Members of the founding generation relied on Johnson when they wrote their most important worksthe Declaration, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights and the Federalist Papers"" (Lynch, New York Times). Stahan and Cadell ""printed 750 copies"" (Adams 76-71a). Bound without rear advertisements. ESTC T130899. Courtney & Smith, 127. Sabin 36302. Goldsmith's I:11501. Text fresh with small bit of expert paper repair to corners of general title page, title page for False Alarm, gutter-edge of two rear leaves, none affecting text. A desirable near-fine copy.

Les fables d’Esope Phirigien, avec celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle, enrichie de discours moraux & historiques & de quatrains à la fin de chaque discours. On a joint à cette nouvelle traduction les fables diverses de gabrias, d’avienus & les contes d’Esope… by AESOP -- BELLEGARDE, Jean-Baptiste Morvan de (1648-1734) – BUSCH, Georg Paul (illus., d. 1756)

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Title: Les fables d’Esope Phirigien, avec celles de Philelphe. Traduction nouvelle, enrichie de discours moraux & historiques & de quatrains à la fin de chaque discours. On a joint à cette nouvelle traduction les fables diverses de gabrias, d’avienus & les contes d’Esope…
Author: AESOP -- BELLEGARDE, Jean-Baptiste Morvan de (1648-1734) – BUSCH, Georg Paul (illus., d. 1756)
Seller: Sanctuary Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good+
Description: Amsterdam: Pierre Mortier, 1708. Hardcover. Very Good+. 2 volumes (152 x 95mm). Vol. I: 297pp., [7] table; Vol. II: 287pp., [4] index. Both volumes with the identical engraved frontispiece depicting the traditional theme of Aesop ruling the animals. The moralizing tales are extensively illustrated with copper- plate engravings by Georg Paul Busch. Volume I contains the life of Aesop by Planudes, and the beginning of Aesop’s Fables and Volume II continues with Aesop’s Fables and includes the Fables of Philelphe, Gabrias and Avienus. Modern binding; (frontispiece of vol. II somewhat chipped, otherwise clean and good). Rare and richly illustrated edition of Aesop’s fables, with extensive dialogue on the moral of each fable. Jean-Baptiste Morvan de Bellegarde, a clergyman, put his mark on the Aesopic work by contributing a four-line rhyming verse at the end of each fable in italics. Bellegarde also added 18 fables of the Latin poet Philelphus and 37 fables based on Aesop by Gabrias and Avienus. The larger fables added are the “Battle of the Cats and the Rats,” and the “Battle of the Rats and the Frogs.” Thereafter follow five “Tales” of Aesop, taken from Plato’s dialogue “Protagoras,” another six “Poetical fables,” with Olympian Gods as protagonists, two more “Tales,” one taken from Herodot, and a last fable, taken from Gerbellius. The beautiful fable illustrations are by Georg Paul Busch; a Berlin copper-engraver who died in 1756. Rare early edition of Aesopic literature with several other didactic tales and author’s additions.

Stop, Miss; Illustrations by the Author by Whitney Jr., Darrow

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Title: Stop, Miss; Illustrations by the Author
Author: Whitney Jr., Darrow
Seller: Royoung bookseller, Inc. (United States)
Condition: Covers and Illustrated dust wrapper near fine with dj in clear plastic overwrapper
Description: New York: Random House, 1957. First printing. Hardcover. Covers and Illustrated dust wrapper near fine with dj in clear plastic overwrapper. Unpaginated. Folio, 29 x 22 cm. All the drawings originally appeared in the New Yorker from 1949 through 1957. With original double page color drawing on the free endpapers inscribed to Ruth Balsom and signed by Darrow. Whitney Darrow Jr. was a prominent American cartoonist, who worked most of his career for The New Yorker, with some 1,500 of his cartoons printed in his nearly 50-year-long career with the magazine. Illustrated endpapers, front cover, lettered in red, back cover illustrated in red, spine in red lettered in white. Interior drawings fresh.

Lawd Today by Richard Wright

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Title: Lawd Today
Author: Richard Wright
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Condition: Near Fine
Description: New York: Walker and Company, 1963. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. A wonderful Association copy: INSCRIBED BY RICHARD WRIGHT'S OLDEST DAUGHTER, JULIA, TO THE GREAT SINGER ELLA FITZGERALD on the front free endpaper. A lovely copy to boot of the 1963 1st edition. Clean and Fine in a crisp, price-intact, Near Fine dustjacket. "Lawd Today" was posthumously published, Richard Wright having died in 1960 at age 52.

Der Junge Goethe: Neu Bearbeitete Ausgabe in Funf Banden by -

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Title: Der Junge Goethe: Neu Bearbeitete Ausgabe in Funf Banden
Author: -
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Condition: Collectible; Very Good
Description: Berlin: Walter De Gruyter & Co, 1963. Cloth. Collectible; Very Good/Very Good. 1963 1st thus. Clean and VG+ in a bright, VG+ dustjacket. Thick octavo, 519 pgs.

FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT; HIS LIFE, HIS WORK, HIS WORDS by Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd

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Title: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT; HIS LIFE, HIS WORK, HIS WORDS
Author: Wright, Olgivanna Lloyd
Seller: J.B. Muns, Fine Arts Books (United States)
Condition: Very Good +
Description: NY: Horizon, 1966. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good. Inscribed/signed: "To Peter with love...1966" (Full signature). Dust jacket slightly torn.

THE POLITICAL STATE OF EUROPE, FOR THE YEAR 1795. CONTAINING AN AUTHENTIC AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF EVERY MILITARY OPERATION OF THE PRESENT BELLIGERENT POWERS. NINTH VOLUME [9]

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Title: THE POLITICAL STATE OF EUROPE, FOR THE YEAR 1795. CONTAINING AN AUTHENTIC AND IMPARTIAL NARRATIVE OF EVERY MILITARY OPERATION OF THE PRESENT BELLIGERENT POWERS. NINTH VOLUME [9]
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Condition: Very Good binding
Description: London: J. S. Jordan, 1795. First Edition. Full Leather. Very Good binding. This volume contains the complete copy of the “Treaty of Amity, Commerce, and Navigation, Between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America”. 634 pp. plus “Index to the Ninth Volume”. Bound in diced half-calf over worn marbled boards; with rules and titling in gold to the spine. Boards have been discreetly reinforced at the gutters. There is loss to the top corner of the blank leaf prior to the title page. Very Good binding.

FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED by Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz"

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Title: FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED
Author: Aldrin, Edwin "Buzz"
Seller: THE FINE BOOKS COMPANY (United States)
Description: FIRST DAY COVER SIGNED dated November 15, 1966, canceled on the day of Aldrin's Gemini XI splashdown, fine. This envelope has photos of all the Project Gemini astronauts and is SIGNED by Buzz Aldrin. The 8¢ stamp on the envelope is of (who else) Robert Goddard. A very nice item.

TEXAS AND THE MASSACHUSETTS RESOLUTIONS by Adams, Charles Francis

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Title: TEXAS AND THE MASSACHUSETTS RESOLUTIONS
Author: Adams, Charles Francis
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Description: Boston: Eastburn's Press, 1844. 54pp, stitched into modern marbled wrappers. Light dusting, else Very Good. Originally printed in nine issues of the Boston Courier in opposition to annexation, this essay "discusses temperately the various arguments for and against annexation, especially those in Robert J. Walker's Letter of January, 1844. Adams states that although annexation would justify dissolution of the Union, the immediate policy of the Free States should be to continue their struggle against slavery. It appears from the text that this was published soon after the appointment of Calhoun as Secretary of State in March, 1844." Streeter. FIRST EDITION. Streeter 1468. Rader 41.

Papermaking through Eighteen Centuries by Hunter, Dard

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Title: Papermaking through Eighteen Centuries
Author: Hunter, Dard
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Description: New York: William Edwin Rudge, 1930. 8vo, xvii, [1], 358pp; folding frontispiece and over 200 illustrations throughout, very good copy in original brown cloth gilt, t.e.g., red morocco label on spine lettered in gilt (scuffed), without the dust jacket. ß First trade edition, with additional material over that of the limited edition of 1923. Collector's bookplate in the back.

10 Days in Krakow by YANG, Yuanyuan

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Title: 10 Days in Krakow
Author: YANG, Yuanyuan
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ISBN: 9789881263179
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Description: Jiazazhi, 2014. New in shrinkwrap. 8vo. 168 pages. Cloth-backed boards. FIRST EDITION, number 263 of 500 copies.

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The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Volume 6 The Completion of Quantum Mechanics 1926-1941 Part 1: The Probability Interpretation and the Statistical Transformation Theory, the Physical Interpretation, and the Empirical and Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 1926-1932 by Mehra, Jagdish and Helmut Rechenberg

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Title: The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, Volume 6 The Completion of Quantum Mechanics 1926-1941 Part 1: The Probability Interpretation and the Statistical Transformation Theory, the Physical Interpretation, and the Empirical and Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics 1926-1932
Author: Mehra, Jagdish and Helmut Rechenberg
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ISBN: 9780387989716
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Description: New York: Springer-Verlag [2000]. Hardcover. 9.25'' x 6.25''. xxxvi, 670pp. Equations throughout. Plum-colored cloth boards without the DJ. Ownership signature on half-title page. Sunning to spine and soiled front board; some of the lettering on front board has rubbed off and barcode sticker pasted on back board. Overall a Good copy. ISBN 0387989714 . Acceptable. Hardcover .

The Agranrian Seeds of Empire: The Political Economy of Agriculture in US State Building Studies in Critical Social Sciences Volume 100 by Bauerly, Brad

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Title: The Agranrian Seeds of Empire: The Political Economy of Agriculture in US State Building Studies in Critical Social Sciences Volume 100
Author: Bauerly, Brad
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ISBN: 9789001314139
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Description: Boston: Brill 2017. Hardcover. 9" x 6". xii, 310 pp. Publisher's illustrated boards, no DJ as issued. Fine. ISBN 9789001314139 . LikeNew. Hardcover .

Visible language: the research journal concerned with all that is involved in our being literate. Vol. XV, no. 1

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Title: Visible language: the research journal concerned with all that is involved in our being literate. Vol. XV, no. 1
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Description: Cleveland: Visible Language, 1981. 8vo, pp. 120; tables, illustrations throughout; original orange printed wrappers, near fine.

The Capital Murder by Alner, James Z.

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Title: The Capital Murder
Author: Alner, James Z.
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Condition: Fair
Description: New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Fair. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. (no dust jacket) [a serviceable reading copy, but no more; the book had gotten wet at some point, with consequent large staining and cloth rippling to lower right corner of front cover, and a smaller area similarly blemished on rear cover; former owner's initials plus date & place of purchase in ink along edge of rear pastedown; large, attractive custom bookplate of one Forrest P. Blunt on front pastedown, partially affected at lower corner by previously-described dampstaining]. Mystery novel set in Washington, D.C., revolving around the murder of a mysterious Argentine woman in her Washington mansion. (Note serious condition issues; offered as a reading/reference copy only.) .

L' origine du proletariat romain et contemporain; faits et theories; nouvelle edition augmentee. Introduction par C. Van Gestel by Zaniewski, Romuald

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Title: L' origine du proletariat romain et contemporain; faits et theories; nouvelle edition augmentee. Introduction par C. Van Gestel
Author: Zaniewski, Romuald
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Description: Louvain: Editions Nauwelaerts, 1957. Paperback. 398p., 9.5 x 6.25 inch plain printed wraps; ex library with a few accession marks, otherwise a nice copy with mild handling soil.

Astronomical Photographs. Second Catalogue of Lantern Slides, Transparencies, and Prints from Negatives Made at the Yerkes Observatory. April 1911. Superseding Previous Catalogues and Appendices. by [Astrophotography] Yerkes Observatory.

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Title: Astronomical Photographs. Second Catalogue of Lantern Slides, Transparencies, and Prints from Negatives Made at the Yerkes Observatory. April 1911. Superseding Previous Catalogues and Appendices.
Author: [Astrophotography] Yerkes Observatory.
Seller: Jeff Weber Rare Books (Switzerland)
Description: Chicago:: University of Chicago Press, 1911., 1911. 8vo. 19 pp. Printed wrappers. Very good.

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